Physician Focused Intervention to Improve Adherence With HIV Antiretrovirals

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: HIV Infection; HIV Infections
• Interventions: Behavioral: Adherence report

• Registration Number: NCT00870792
• Lead Sponsor: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Brief 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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2002-11
• Primary Completion: 2005-01
• Study Completion: 2005-02
• Status Verified: 2009-03
• Study First Submitted: 2009-03-26
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-03-26
• Study First Posted: 2009-03-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 156

Inclusion Criteria

• on ART
• willing to use MEMS cap
• speaks and reads English
• detectable viral loads

Exclusion Criteria

• uses a pill box

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Received report	Adherence report	-
Routine care	Adherence report	Patients receive usual, routine, care.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Antiretroviral medication adherence as assessed by electronic pill cap monitoring.	6 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Self-reported medication adherence	6 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Tufts Medical Center; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States