Physician Focused Intervention to Improve Adherence With HIV Antiretrovirals (MAP)

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infection; HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Adherence report

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NIH

Identifiers

NCT00870792

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Details and patient eligibility

About

We hypothesized that providing physicians treating with HIV disease, at the time of a routine outpatient visit, with a detailed report describing patients' adherence with HIV antiretroviral medications, would improve the quality of the physician-patient interaction, and also patients' subsequent adherence.

Enrollment: 156 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• on ART
• willing to use MEMS cap
• speaks and reads English
• detectable viral loads

Exclusion criteria

• uses a pill box

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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156 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Received report

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adherence report

Routine care

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Patients receive usual, routine, care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Adherence report