NCT01395771

Effects of a Phone Call Intervention to Promote HAART Adherence

Effects of a Phone Call Intervention to Promote HAART Adherence in Baoshan, China

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Baoshan Prefecture Center for Disease Control and Prevention · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The adherence rate (95%) to HAART in the intervention group which receives a phone call will be higher than that(75%)of control group which does not receive a phone call.

Detailed description

According to above eligibility criteria, getting two eligible group patients, one which are patients newly required HAART (new cases) and the other who have received HAART for 1-3 years(old cases). All eligible patients in each group will be randomly assigned to intervention and control group by block randomization. Among of them, one group with a phone call intervention, the other without. New cases will be followed up for 3 months and study outcomes will be assessed at the baseline and the 2nd week, the 1st month and 2nd month, and the 3rd month. For the old cases, study outcomes will be assessed only at the baseline survey and at the 3rd month.

Conditions

• Medication Adherence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Phone call intervention, no phone call intervention	Biweekly phone call intervention +routine service will be assigned to intervention group of new cases and old cases. Only routine service will be assigned to the control group of abovementioned two kind of cases.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-05-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2011-10-01
• First posted: 2011-07-18
• Last updated: 2011-07-18

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: China