Mothers' effectiveness as HIV risk reduction educators for adolescent daughters

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Barbara L DancyMarie L Talashek

Abstract

Low-income African American inner city adolescent females continue to be at disproportionately high risk for contracting HIV. Though it has been speculated that mothers' involvement in HIV risk reduction may be helpful in the fight against HIV, very few interventions involve mothers. The Mother/Daughter HIV Risk Reduction intervention (MDRR), an innovative community-based intervention, trains mothers to be their daughters' primary HIV educators. A split-plot repeated measures design was used to test the effectiveness of the MDRR in decreasing daughters' sexual activity over a 2-month period. The mediating variables were daughters' HIV transmission knowledge, self-efficacy and intention to refuse sex. The sample consisted of 262 daughters with a mean age of 12.4 years. The results revealed that mothers were effective in increasing the mediating variables and in reducing their daughters' level of sexual activity. Active involvement of mothers is cost-effective and should be integrated into HIV intervention programs.

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