Contingency management to reduce methamphetamine use and sexual risk among men who have sex with men: a randomized controlled trial

BMC Public Health

Research Article

James P Hughes¹  Matthew R Golden²  Timothy W Menza³  Damon R Jameson³  Steven Shoptaw⁴  Grant N Colfax⁵ 

[1] Center for AIDS and STD, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, 98104, Seattle, WA, USA;Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington School of Public Health, Box 357230, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA;Center for AIDS and STD, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, 98104, Seattle, WA, USA;Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Box 357230, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA;Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, 35642098195, BoxSeattle, WA, USA;Public Health--Seattle & King County, 401 5th Ave., Suite 1300, 98104, Seattle, WA, USA;Center for AIDS and STD, Harborview Medical Center, 325 Ninth Avenue, 98104, Seattle, WA, USA;Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington School of Public Health, Box 357230, 98195, Seattle, WA, USA;Public Health--Seattle & King County, 401 5th Ave., Suite 1300, 98104, Seattle, WA, USA;Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 50-078 Center for Health Sciences, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA;Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, 760 Westwood Plaza, 90095, Los Angeles, CA, USA;San Francisco Department of Public Health, 101 Grove Street, Room 408, 94102, San Francisco, CA, USA;

关键词: Sexual Risk;    Methamphetamine;    Control Participant;    Study Visit;    Contingency Management;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-10-774

 received in 2010-08-14, accepted in 2010-12-20,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundMethamphetamine use is associated with HIV acquisition and transmission among men who have sex with men (MSM). Contingency management (CM), providing positive reinforcement for drug abstinence and withholding reinforcement when abstinence is not demonstrated, may facilitate reduced methamphetamine use and sexual risk. We compared CM as a stand-alone intervention to a minimal intervention control to assess the feasibility of conducting a larger, more definitive trial of CM; to define the frequency of behavioral outcomes to power such a trial; and, to compute preliminary estimates of CM's effectiveness.MethodsWe randomly assigned 127 MSM from Seattle, WA who use methamphetamine to receive a 12-week CM intervention (n = 70) or referral to community resources (n = 57).ResultsRetention at 24 weeks was 84%. Comparing consecutive study visits, non-concordant UAI declined significantly in both study arms. During the intervention, CM and control participants were comparably likely to provide urine samples containing methamphetamine (adjusted relative risk [aRR] = 1.09; 95%CI: 0.71, 1.56) and to report non-concordant UAI (aRR = 0.80; 95%CI: 0.47, 1.35). However, during post-intervention follow-up, CM participants were somewhat more likely to provide urine samples containing methamphetamine than control participants (aRR = 1.21; 95%CI: 0.95, 1.54, P = 0.11). Compared to control participants, CM participants were significantly more likely to report weekly or more frequent methamphetamine use and use of more than eight quarters of methamphetamine during the intervention and post-intervention periods.ConclusionsWhile it is possible to enroll and retain MSM who use methamphetamine in a trial of CM conducted outside drug treatment, our data suggest that CM is not likely to have a large, sustained effect on methamphetamine use.Trial RegistrationClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01174654

【 授权许可】

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© Menza et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.