10027/10499 Mary E. Mackesy-Amiti Mary E. Mackesy-Amiti Lorna Finnegan Lorna Finnegan Lawrence J. Ouellet Lawrence J. Ouellet Elizabeth T. Golub Elizabeth T. Golub Holly Hagan Holly Hagan Sharon M. Hudson Sharon M. Hudson Mary H. Latka Mary H. Latka Richard S. Garfein Richard S. Garfein Peer-education Intervention to Reduce Injection Risk Behaviors Benefits High-Risk Young Injection Drug Users: A Latent Transition Analysis of the CIDUS 3/DUIT Study University of Illinois at Chicago 2013 injection drug use intervention HIV HCV latent class analysis 2013-11-15 00:00:00 Journal contribution https://indigo.uic.edu/articles/journal_contribution/Peer-education_Intervention_to_Reduce_Injection_Risk_Behaviors_Benefits_High-Risk_Young_Injection_Drug_Users_A_Latent_Transition_Analysis_of_the_CIDUS_3_DUIT_Study/10755377 We analyzed data from a large randomized HIV/HCV prevention intervention trial with young injection drug users (IDUs) conducted in five U.S. cities. The trial compared a peer education intervention (PEI) with a time-matched, attention control group. Applying categorical latent variable analysis (mixture modeling) to baseline injection risk behavior data, we identified four distinct classes of injection-related HIV/HCV risk: low risk, non-syringe equipment-sharing, moderate-risk syringe-sharing, and high-risk syringe-sharing. The trial participation rate did not vary across classes. We conducted a latent transition analysis using trial baseline and 6-month follow-up data, to test the effect of the intervention on transitions to the low-risk class at follow-up. Adjusting for gender, age, and race/ethnicity, a significant intervention effect was found only for the high-risk class. Young IDU who exhibited high-risk behavior at baseline were 90% more likely to be in the low-risk class at follow-up after the PEI intervention, compared to the control group.