NCT02165735

Get Ready And Empowered About Treatment

Addressing HIV Tx Disparities Through Patient Empowerment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 360 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to rigorously assess a program designed to empower patient living with HIV, to improve their health care and health, and to reduce disparities.

Detailed description

Our project has four major aims: 1. Assess improvement in patient empowerment 2. Assess improvement in patients' receipt of evidence-based care 3. Assess improvement in patients' health 4. Assess reduction in disparities in empowerment

Conditions

• HIV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	patient activation training	Patient activation training involves six, 90-minute, group (8-12 person) training sessions facilitated by trained peers and training staff and one (20-30 minute) pre-visit coaching session conducted by staff. The hands on group training includes: 1) HIV education; 2) use of a handheld smart device; 3) use of an HIV electronic personal health record app that runs on the smart device; 4) identification of patients' visit need priorities and skills for communicating with their HIV provider. The pre-visit coaching includes identification of patient concerns and patient behavioral rehearsal for asking about these concerns.
OTHER	Usual care	Usual HIV care

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-08-20
• Primary completion: 2016-11-30
• Completion: 2017-02-28
• First posted: 2014-06-17
• Last updated: 2019-03-15
• Results posted: 2018-10-09

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States