Addressing Psychosocial Comorbidities in HIV Treatment and Prevention (APPROACH)

University of Miami

Status

Completed

Conditions

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Depression

Mental Health

Treatments

Behavioral: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT02696681

1K24MH094214-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

9K24DA040489-07 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

20150383

Details and patient eligibility

About

Project AProaCH is an open pilot trial of a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals with HIV with various psychological comorbidities, which the investigators call "syndemics". Syndemics are co-occurring psychosocial problems that interact with each other and with health behavior such as HIV sexual transmission risk behavior and adherence to self care.

Enrollment

27 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

HIV+ individuals
Uncontrolled virus (plasma HIV RNA concentrations that reach detectable limits) or being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) (gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, trichomoniasis (female only)) currently or within the past 3 months.

Exclusion criteria

Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
Active untreated, unstable, major mental illness (i.e., untreated psychosis or mania) that would interfere with study participation
Opinion of the PI that the participant would be at risk for harm to himself or others as a result of study participation,
Under the age of 18 or over the age of 65,
Current CBT for a psychiatric disorder, or a course of CBT in the past year.