Get Ready And Empowered About Treatment (GREAT)

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Other: Usual care; Behavioral: patient activation training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02165735

AD-1306-03104

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to rigorously assess a program designed to empower patient living with HIV, to improve their health care and health, and to reduce disparities.

Full description

Our project has four major aims:

1. Assess improvement in patient empowerment
2. Assess improvement in patients' receipt of evidence-based care
3. Assess improvement in patients' health
4. Assess reduction in disparities in empowerment

Enrollment: 360 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age18 years or older,
• confirmed HIV diagnosis
• receipt of care within a participating site.

Exclusion criteria

• inability to provide informed consent
• limited English proficiency (Trainings and Personal Health Record are currently only available in English)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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360 participants in 2 patient groups

patient activation training

Experimental group

Description:

Patient activation training involves six, 90-minute, group (8-12 person) training sessions facilitated by trained peers and training staff and one (20-30 minute) pre-visit coaching session conducted by staff. The hands on group training includes: 1) HIV education; 2) use of a handheld smart device; 3) use of an HIV electronic personal health record app that runs on the smart device; 4) identification of patients' visit need priorities and skills for communicating with their HIV provider. The pre-visit coaching includes identification patient concerns and patient behavioral rehearsal for asking about these concerns.

Treatment:

Behavioral: patient activation training

Usual Care

Experimental group

Description:

Usual care for HIV

Treatment:

Other: Usual care