"Reduction in Risk Behavior among Adults with Severe Mental Illness Who Learned to Advocate for HIV Prevention."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Psychiatric Services, "Objectives: The study evaluated the relative impact of HIV risk reduction interventions for adults with severe mental illness living in the inner city. Methods: : A total of 104 chronically mentally ill men and women were interviewed to determine sexual risk behavior over the past month and to assess HIV risk-related psychological characteristics, including their knowledge about risk behavior, their belief in their ability to change their behavior, their perceptions of peer and social norms about safer sex, their expectancies about the outcomes of these changes, and their perceived...

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