TY - JOUR
T1 - Behavioral Intervention Improves Treatment Outcomes Among HIV-Infected Individuals Who Have Delayed, Declined, or Discontinued Antiretroviral Therapy
T2 - A Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Intervention
AU - Gwadz, Marya
AU - Cleland, Charles M.
AU - Applegate, Elizabeth
AU - Belkin, Mindy
AU - Gandhi, Monica
AU - Salomon, Nadim
AU - Banfield, Angela
AU - Leonard, Noelle
AU - Riedel, Marion
AU - Wolfe, Hannah
AU - Pickens, Isaiah
AU - Bolger, Kelly
AU - Bowens, De Shannon
AU - Perlman, David
AU - Mildvan, Donna
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank the men and women who participated in the study, the Peter Krueger Center for Immunological Disorders at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Spencer Cox Center for Health at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, and Gay Men’s Health Crisis for making this study possible. Special thanks to Rob Shiau at the Peter Krueger Center and Zach Hennessey, MA at Spencer Cox for facilitating study implementation. This work would not have been possible without Lisa Sanfilippo, RN; Andrea Wagner, RN; Christopher Hilliard, MPH; Amy Braksmajer, Ph.D.; and Victoria Sharp, MD. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Mental Health (R34MH093352) and the Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR; P30 DA011041). Dr. Monica Gandhi was supported by NIAID/NIH RO1AI098472 and we thank Drs. Yong Huang and Howard Horng, directors of the hair analysis laboratory at UCSF. We particularly wish to acknowledge our Program Officer at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Michael Stirratt, Ph.D., Program Chief at the NIMH Division of AIDS Research for scientific guidance throughout the study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York.
PY - 2015/10/14
Y1 - 2015/10/14
N2 - Nationally up to 60 % of persons living with HIV are neither taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) nor well engaged in HIV care, mainly racial/ethnic minorities. This study examined a new culturally targeted multi-component intervention to address emotional, attitudinal, and social/structural barriers to ART initiation and HIV care. Participants (N = 95) were African American/Black and Latino adults with CD4 < 500 cells/mm3 not taking ART, randomized 1:1 to intervention or control arms, the latter receiving treatment as usual. Primary endpoints were adherence, evaluated via ART concentrations in hair samples, and HIV viral load suppression. The intervention was feasible and acceptable. Eight months post-baseline, intervention participants tended to be more likely to evidence “good” (that is, 7 days/week) adherence (60 vs. 26.7 %; p = 0.087; OR = 3.95), and had lower viral load levels than controls (t(22) = 2.29, p = 0.032; OR = 5.20), both large effect sizes. This highly promising intervention merits further study.
AB - Nationally up to 60 % of persons living with HIV are neither taking antiretroviral therapy (ART) nor well engaged in HIV care, mainly racial/ethnic minorities. This study examined a new culturally targeted multi-component intervention to address emotional, attitudinal, and social/structural barriers to ART initiation and HIV care. Participants (N = 95) were African American/Black and Latino adults with CD4 < 500 cells/mm3 not taking ART, randomized 1:1 to intervention or control arms, the latter receiving treatment as usual. Primary endpoints were adherence, evaluated via ART concentrations in hair samples, and HIV viral load suppression. The intervention was feasible and acceptable. Eight months post-baseline, intervention participants tended to be more likely to evidence “good” (that is, 7 days/week) adherence (60 vs. 26.7 %; p = 0.087; OR = 3.95), and had lower viral load levels than controls (t(22) = 2.29, p = 0.032; OR = 5.20), both large effect sizes. This highly promising intervention merits further study.
KW - Antiretroviral therapy
KW - Disparities
KW - HIV/AIDS
KW - Intervention
KW - Motivational interviewing
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U2 - 10.1007/s10461-015-1054-6
DO - 10.1007/s10461-015-1054-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 25835462
AN - SCOPUS:84941421893
SN - 1090-7165
VL - 19
SP - 1801
EP - 1817
JO - AIDS and Behavior
JF - AIDS and Behavior
IS - 10
ER -