VA Video Connect in HIV Care

VA Office of Research and Development

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Other: VVC

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT04055207

I01HX002645 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

IIR 18-077

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research study is to see how effective the addition of video to home telehealth services is in helping patients with HIV to remain in care, which is vital to management of their illness. The investigators also want to understand how to best put the video to home services into practice.

Enrollment: 365 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient in the Infectious Diseases clinic at Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (MEDVAMC), Houston, TX, with HIV infection
• At least 18 years of age
• Able to speak English
• Able to consent to the use of VVC

Exclusion criteria

• Unable to use or consent to use VVC, due to either significant physical or mental disability
• Incarcerated (though MEDVAMC does not generally provide care for prisoners)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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365 participants in 2 patient groups

VVC

Experimental group

Description:

Option to receive VA Video Connect (VVC) delivery of HIV care.

Treatment:

Other: VVC

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

All HIV care available at MEDVAMC will be delivered as usual.