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Abstract
Discrimination is thought to be a key driver of health disparities that affect people with multiple intersecting devalued identities, such as HIV-positive Latino sexual minority men (SMM). Ineffective coping with the stress of discrimination (e.g., rumination, substance use) may lead to worse long-term mental and physical health. Within the context of a community partnership, we developed a nine-session, community-based, cognitive behavior therapy group intervention to address coping with discrimination among HIV-positive Latino immigrant SMM. In Study 1, we assessed anticipated intervention acceptability via semi-structured interviews with 28 HIV-positive Latino SMM and ten social service providers and administrators; we used interview data to develop the manualized intervention. In Study 2, we assessed acceptability, feasibility, and preliminary effects in a pre-post, non-randomized intervention evaluation with two intervention groups of HIV-positive Latino SMM (n = 30, average age = 48.5, SD = 10.3). In semi-structured interviews, key stakeholders were enthusiastic about the proposed intervention. In the non-randomized evaluation, feasibility was evidenced by moderate levels of intervention attendance (five sessions on average); reasons for missed sessions (e.g., illness, scheduling conflict with work) were unrelated to the intervention. Linear regressions showed preliminary effects for decreased negative emotional coping responses to discrimination pre-to-post intervention (i.e., feeling less anger, sadness, powerlessness, helplessness, and shame on two subscales; b (SE) = −0.23 (0.10), p = .03; b (SE) = −0.25 (0.11), p = .03). Our intervention holds promise for reducing disparities by empowering Latino SMM to leverage innate resilience resources to improve their health in the face of discrimination.
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