NCT00870792

Physician Focused Intervention to Improve Adherence With HIV Antiretrovirals

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 156 (actual)
• Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) · NIH
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• HIV Infection
• HIV Infections

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Adherence report	During the intervention phase, the data collected at the study visit were summarized in a 3-page report that was given to the provider before each intervention visit. The report included data on self-reported adherence, MEMS adherence, reminder use, beliefs about ART, reasons for missed doses, alcohol and drug use, and depression.

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-11-01
• Primary completion: 2005-01-01
• Completion: 2005-02-01
• First posted: 2009-03-27
• Last updated: 2017-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States