Kensington Research Institute

Research and Evaluation

Over the years, KRI staff members have been involved with a number of interesting research and evaluation projects.  The following are just a few examples of some of the major projects that KRI researchers have conducted or with which we have been affiliated.  Click the icons beside each brief project description to find more information about each one.

  This newly-funded initiative is being sponsored by the National

    Institutes on Health.  It is a research study focusing on men who

    use the internet to find other men with whom they can have

    sex, particularly unprotected--or bareback--sex.  When

    completed, this project will include interviews with

approximately 300 men from all over the United States, 150 of them Caucasian and 150

of them members of racial minority groups.

         Operating from 1993 to 1996, Project Aquarius was a 

       community-based project targeting economically-

       disadvantaged, inner-city residents in the District of

       Columbia.  It provided HIV education and testing, education

       and testing for other sexually transmitted diseases, and basic

       medical treatment.

     The Adolescent Treatment Models (ATM) Project was a

    research study evaluating the efficacy of drug treatment for

    adolescents.  The main goals of the study were to determine

    what outcomes were most/least likely to occur after

    teenagers entered substance abuse treatment, and to

    identify the "types" of adolescents for whom treatment was

    most/least effective.

          The Cartoons Project was a content analysis research study

        of more than 1,200 animated cartoons produced between

        1930 and the mid-1990s.  The purpose of the study was to

        learn what types of messages cartoons provided about a

        variety of social groups and social behaviors, and examine

        how those messages changed over time.

                                                         Project FAST was a research study conducted with 250 

  "at risk" women residing in the Atlanta, Georgia metropolitan

 area.  Conducted between 1997 and 2000, the principal aim

 of the study was to learn about the interrelationship between

 psychosocial functioning, substance use/abuse, and HIV risk

                                             behaviors.

           Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse from 1997

         through 1999, the Female Condom Study was a research

         study assessing how receptive 132 women drug abusers and

         their sexual partners would be to using the female condom

         as a way to help reduce their HIV risk. 

            Project Neighborhoods in Action was a five-year cooperative

          agreement research and intervention project targeting crack

          users and injection drug users in the Washington, DC

          metropolitan area.  Conducted from 1994-1999, the study

          compared the effectiveness of a standard "AIDS 101" type of

          HIV intervention with that of a video-based enhanced

          intervention approach.

             More than 2,800 female sexual partners of drug injectors

          participated in The Women Helping to Empower and

          Enhance Lives (WHEEL) Project, making it the largest study

          of its kind ever conducted.  It was a multi-site, community-

          based HIV intervention and research project conducted

          between 1990 and 1993.