Nursing Intervention for HIV Regime Adherence Among People With Serious Mental Illness (SMI)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Mental Illness; HIV

Treatments: Behavioral: Use of Memory Aids to take medications

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00264823

5R01NR008851-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

708134

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to investigate how nurses can best help people with serious mental illnesses (SMI) follow their HIV treatment plans.

Full description

There is concern that HIV positive SMI persons may be a greater risk for poor treatment adherence, increasing risk for poorer outcomes and development of treatment resistance virus, and also placing others at greater risk. Involvement of advance practice nurses has been previously shown to improve outcomes for persons with HIV/AIDS.

Enrollment: 273 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of serious mental illness; HIV positive

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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273 participants in 2 patient groups

1 - Experimental

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Use of Memory Aids to take medications

2 - Control

No Intervention group