Information Visualizations to Enhance HIV-related Communication (Info Viz: HIV)

University of Colorado Denver (CU Denver)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV; Communication Research

Treatments: Other: Info Viz for Health

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT04564209

20-0163

R00NR017829 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

HIV disproportionately affects Latinos who have more infections, faster disease progression, more HIV-related deaths, and slower diagnosis and treatment than their white/majority counterparts. This is a concern across the United States (US) and in developing countries, such as the Dominican Republic (DR). The HIV-related health disparities experienced by Latinos are made worse when those living with HIV have low health literacy and difficulty understanding the information they need to manage their health.

The PI developed a set of images to assist clinicians in providing information to Latino people living with HIV (PLWH). These images have been put into a mobile health app so clinicians can easily access them during clinic visits. The PI has tested her with PLWH in the DR and in New York City. So, the next steps in this research are to ensure the images are relevant and useful to Latinos across the United States (US) and to further assess if, and to what extent, the images can improve health outcomes among PLWH in the US and in the DR. We will therefore, adapt images to Latinos of Mexican origin/descent and then test them to determine if these images help clinicians provide information to patients by conducting a study at clinical sites in the US and in the DR.

Enrollment: 164 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants must self-identify as Latino, be English or Spanish-speaking, living with HIV with a detectable viral load (>200 copies/mL) at any point in the past year or have an indication of adherence risk, and planning to receive care at the study site for the next year.

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting inclusion criteria or not having the mental capacity to understand the study or provide informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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164 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment

Experimental group

Description:

The treatment group will be exposed to the infographic intervention when they present for clinic/study visits. During their visit with the provider, the provider offer health education while using infographics.

Treatment:

Other: Info Viz for Health

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control groups will receive standard health education.