Nutritional Status Among naïve HIV Infected Patients and HIV Infected Patients Receiving Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (TNT-HIV 001)

Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01899157

TNT-HIV001

Details and patient eligibility

About

A prospective cross-sectional study evaluates nutritional status and its relationship to the related factors in Thai HIV-infected patients who attending in out patient clinic.

Full description

A prospective cross-sectional study evaluates nutritional status and its relationship to the related factors in Thai HIV-infected patients who attending in out patient clinic at The Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute, Surat Thani hospital, Khonkaen hospital, Sanpathong hospital and the Queen Savang Vadhana Hospital at Sri Racha .

General Objective: To determine nutritional status among Thai People Living with HIV (PLHIV).

Specific Objective:

1. To assess nutritional problems including undernutrition, overnutrition and others such as lipodystrophy, dyslipidemia, hyperglycemia, cardiovascular disease, etc. among naïve HIV-infected patients and HIV-infected patients undergoing HARRT by using ABCDEF approach: Anthropometric, Biochemical, Clinical, Dietary, Exercise and Family assessment.
2. To describe the relationship between the nutritional status and HIV disease staging and other related factors among naïve HIV-infected patients and HIV-infected patients undergoing HARRT.
3. To describe the prevalence of CVD and its relationship to cardiac risk factors
4. To validate the community screening tool developed by the Thai Nutrition Taskforce in HIV (TNT-HIV) by assessing the correlation of this tool and nutritional status.

Enrollment: 580 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• HIV positive
• 18 years of age or older
• Receiving ongoing care as part of the anonymous clinic, TRCARC, the antiretroviral therapy clinics at Bamrasnaradura Infectious Disease Institute, Surat Thani hospital, Khonkaen hospital, Sanpathong hospital and the Queen Savang Vadhana Hospital at Sri Racha.
• Either naïve HIV-infected patients and HIV-infected patients undergoing HARRT

Exclusion criteria

• HIV negative
• Patient who had active AIDS-related disorders within three months before participate the study
• Patients who are pregnant

Trial design

580 participants in 1 patient group

Survey

Description:

1. Thai naive HIV-infected patients 2. Thai HIV-infected patient reciering highly active antiretroviral therapy