Project HAPPY: A Community Based Participatory Research Intervention Addressing HIV Prevention in Black Youth

Project HAPPY was a CBPR prevention intervention for Black youth (14 - 18) that compared four intervention groups: Becoming a Responsible Team (BART), HIV-RAAP (HIV/AIDS Risk Reduction Among Heterosexually Active African American Men and Women: A Risk Reduction Prevention Intervention), and two newly developed curriculums that incorporated social media, DHAB A and DHAB B (Decreasing HIV/AIDS Boldly). We examined the effects of the intervention on condom use attitudes, condom use self-efficacy, and HIV prevention attitudes. The analyses of 175 participants demonstrated significant positive effects of all the interventions on HIV prevention attitudes, and condom use attitudes, while there was a positive effect for the BART intervention on condom use self-efficacy. The BART intervention also demonstrated significant positive effects on condom use self-efficacy when compared to the DHAB B intervention. Multiple regression analysis demonstrated a significant effect for gender on HIV prevention attitudes and a significant effect for age on condom use attitudes.