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Does the Combined Intervention Program Matter for College-Attending Hispanic and Other Minority Young Adults?
- Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 2 Supplement, May 2017
- pp. 100-112
- 10.1353/hpu.2017.0055
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This evaluation study reports the effects of a combined alcohol-use and sex education intervention program on the knowledge, attitudes, and risk-taking behaviors among college-attending Hispanic and other minority young adults. A random sample of Hispanic, Black, and other racial minority college students aged 18–24 was selected to participate in an intervention study from 2014 to 2016 at a minority-serving institution (MSI) in South Texas. Results show that the combined intervention program has significantly increased minority young adults’ awareness of risks associated with unprotected sex, safe-sex negotiation skills, and HIV knowledge. Moreover, the combined intervention program has also decreased minority young adults’ past-30-day use of alcohol. These results support the assertion that a combined intervention program can serve as an important strategy to help prevent the risk of HIV/STD transmission among college attending Hispanic and racial minority young adults in South Texas.