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Assessment of a Community Support Worker Intervention for Persons Living With HIV (PLWH) in Rural Ethiopia

NCT02448394 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1799

Last updated 2020-11-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study, to be conducted in southern Ethiopia, is a randomized community trial, evaluating the use of local community support workers who provide for HIV patients education, counseling/social support, and linkage to the HIV Clinic. Patients will be followed for at least three years, with a primary goal of improving retention in HIV care, and secondary goals of improving client knowledge, attitudes about being HIV-positive, feelings of social support and clinical health status.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Community Support Worker

At each of the intervention sites, all newly enrolled participants will have an HIV community support worker (CSW) assigned them. CSW responsibilities include: education on HIV treatment and health promoting behaviors, social support/counseling, facilitated communication with the HIV clinic, referrals as needed for other support needs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Alan Lifson, MD · University of Minnesota

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-10-31
Primary Completion
2020-05-01
Completion
2020-05-01

Countries

  • Ethiopia

Study Locations

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