Social-Psychological Intervention to Improve Adherence to HAART (SPIAH-Q)

University of Sao Paulo

Status

Unknown

Conditions

AIDS

HIV Infections

Treatments

Behavioral: Social-psycho intervention to improve adherence to HAART

Other: Usual care

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00716040

FAPESP 2006-61277-6

Details and patient eligibility

About

All eligible patients will be invited to use electronic monitoring of medication (MEMS) during the next six months. After two months with MEMS the enrolled patients will be randomized to intervention group or to control group. The intervention group will be submitted to four social-psycho sessions with a pre-trained health professional. The control group will receive the usual care of the health service.

The study will compare the rate of adherence to antiretroviral therapy between the intervention group and the control group. The duration of the study will be of six months. The analysis will be based on "intention-to-treat.

Enrollment

121 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients aged more than 18 years old, with detectable viral load and more than six months under HAART

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant women
Patients participating in other trials
Patients in treatment for hepatitis and for active opportunistic infection
Patients with mental or physical condition which do not allow their attendance to the health service