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Social-Psychological Intervention to Improve Adherence to HAART

NCT00716040 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 121

Last updated 2008-07-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

All eligible patients will be invited to use electronic monitoring of medication (MEMS) during the next six months. After two months with MEMS the enrolled patients will be randomized to intervention group or to control group. The intervention group will be submitted to four social-psycho sessions with a pre-trained health professional. The control group will receive the usual care of the health service.

The study will compare the rate of adherence to antiretroviral therapy between the intervention group and the control group. The duration of the study will be of six months. The analysis will be based on "intention-to-treat.

Conditions

  • AIDS
  • HIV Infections

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Social-psycho intervention to improve adherence to HAART

The intervention focus on the notion of scenes and scenarios to examine and discussing the experience of taking ARV medicines. In principle, such an approach provides a tool for conscientization, action and the invention of novel group and individual repertoires that may result in individual mobilization for improving adherence to treatment and reducing his/her vulnerability.

OTHER

Usual care

The control group will be submitted to the usual care of the health service

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Sao Paulo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Ines B Nemes, PhD · Faculty of Medicine -University of Sao Paulo

  • Ernani T Santa Helena, PhD · Regional University of Blumenau

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-03-31
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2008-11-30

Countries

  • Brazil

Study Locations

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