NCT01305629

Intervention Targeting Substance Using Older Adults With HIV

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hunter College of City University of New York · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The proposed study uses a randomized controlled experimental design to evaluate the efficacy of a brief intervention using spiritual self schema (3S+) counseling to simultaneously target HIV health outcomes, and substance use among alcohol and/or drug dependent HIV positive older adults (age 50+), relative to an attention control condition. Participants will be randomly assigned to receive either: (1) 12 sessions of 3S+ counseling, adapted for the present study to target both non-injection drug use, drinking, and HIV health; or (2) 12 sessions of education about HIV health and the associated with alcohol and drug use that will serve as an attention-control.

Conditions

• HIV
• Medication Adherence
• Substance Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Spiritual Self-Schema Therapy	The Spiritual Self Schema therapy (3S+) intervention will consist of a series of 12 one hour-long sessions delivered individually to participants over a four-month period. The 3S+ approach combines cognitive and behavioral therapy techniques with elements of non-theistic Buddhist philosophy to increase motivation for treatment adherence, alcohol and/or substance use reduction or abstinence and the prevention or reduction of HIV risk behaviors. 3S+ draws from self-regulation theory, self-schema theory, and self-discrepancy theory to assist participants in defining and perceiving their addict self, when their addict self is active, and its resulting negative affect state. 3S+ remediates the "addict" schema by proposing the construction of an alternate and competing schema: the "spiritual self." This spiritual self schema is compatible with HIV self-care, alcohol and drug use reduction or abstinence, adherence to treatment, and a compassionate life.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-06-01
• Primary completion: 2015-08-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2011-03-01
• Last updated: 2016-10-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States