Projects

Preventing HIV among Native Americans through the Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use

Preventing HIV among Native Americans through the Treatment of PTSD and Substance Us (1R01MD011574-01)

Sponsor:

National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities

Principal Investigator:

Principal Investigator:

  • Cynthia Pearson

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Project Coordinator: Cynthia Pearson, PhD

Project Period:

09/27/2016 — 06/30/2021

Built on an 8-year community-based participatory partnership, in full collaboration with the Tribal Nation, this study is a 5-year two-arm randomized comparative effectiveness trial to evaluate prevention of HIV/STI sexual risk behavior by directly addressing PTSD or substance use. We will evaluate Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) versus Motivational Interviewing with Skills Training (MIST) in HIV/STI prevention. AI elder and community leaders have insisted that “we can keep providing substance use or sexual risk programs but until we get to the underlying cause – trauma – then we’ll keep replacing one means of avoidance for another”. This study will help address this community-generated clinical and empirical question. The overall

goal is to compare two evidence based treatments, each addressing a different HIV sexual-risk behavior (HSB) causal pathway. NET addresses PTSD preventing substance use disorder (SUD) and HSB. MIST addresses substance misuse preventing SUD and HSB.

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