NCT00241202

The Efficacy of the HIV/AIDS Symptom Management Manual

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 775 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goals of this research are: 1) To test the efficacy of a self-care symptom management manual by examining whether people who use the manual find it to be useful; 2) To examine symptom and demographic data related to self-care behaviors, symptom control, medication adherence and enhanced quality of life. The University of California, San Francisco is the coordinating site for this multi-site international study.

Detailed description

People living with HIV/AIDS encounter many psychological, physiological, and cognitive symptoms, such as pain, diarrhea, fever, fatigue, depression, and confusion. These symptoms have been found to restrict a person's daily life significantly. Self-management of multiple HIV and medication side effects symptoms and maintaining optimal quality of life have, therefore, become major daily tasks for people living with HIV/AIDS. This study is a randomized controlled trial with a two-group repeated measures design to test the efficacy of the symptom management manual. Two groups (experimental and control) will be assessed in a repeated measures design at 3 time points: baseline (time 0), one month (time 1), and two months (time 2). Data will be analyzed using longitudinal mixture modeling. Comparison(s): HIV-positive patients receiving a symptom management manual and orientation to the manual, compared to HIV-positive patients receiving a nutrition manual and orientation to the manual.

Conditions

• HIV
• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Symptom Management Manual	Participants receive the Symptom Management Manual, and are shown an example. They are given the Manual to take home with them and use.

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-10-01
• Primary completion: 2006-12-01
• Completion: 2006-12-01
• First posted: 2005-10-18
• Last updated: 2008-01-17

Locations

11 sites across 4 countries: United States, Kenya, Puerto Rico, South Africa