NCT01853917

Evaluation of Barriers to Postpartum Care in HIV Infected Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 38 (actual)
• Sponsor: The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate why the majority of HIV infected women in the Harris County Health District system who are pregnant do not come to clinic for their HIV disease after they have a baby through questionaires administered prepartum and questionaires and structured interviews postpartum. The study will ask subjects questions about HIV, drug use, depression and social problems.

Detailed description

This study is evaluating information pre and postpartum to assess what are barriers to patients coming into care for HIV after they have a baby. We will try to evaluate recurrent themes in questionaires and interviews to try and identify the barriers to care.

Conditions

• HIV Infection
• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	questionaires and structured interviews	We will do questionaires on pregnant women before they have their baby and after they have their baby. We will do structured interviews after they have their baby

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-01-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2014-11-01
• First posted: 2013-05-15
• Last updated: 2014-12-04

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States