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"Sex, Games and Videotapes" (SexG), a "15-session social skills intervention for reducing high-risk sexual behaviors among men with severe mental illness" (p. 407), is described in the Fall 2005 issue of mental health AIDS. More recently, Berkman, Cerwonka, Sohler, and Susser (2006) evaluated a six-session version of SexG (SexG-Brief). Ninety-two men were randomized to this intervention or to a 2-hour HIV educational session; sexual risk behaviors were assessed at 6-week intervals for a period of 6 months. "Among the sexually active men (33 in the intervention group and 23 in the control group), a twofold reduction in sexual risk behaviors was found for the intervention group. This reduction was less than the threefold reduction seen for the original 15-session intervention and was not ... [statistically] significant" (p. 407). Berkman and colleagues suggest that "[f]urther study is required to determine the optimal balance between efficacy and feasibility of this intervention" (p. 407).
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Summer 2006 Newsletter / Volume 7, Issue 4 
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