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| Title |
Acceptability of a mobile health intervention to enhance HIV care coordination for patients with substance use disorders
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| Published in |
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, April 2017
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| DOI | 10.1186/s13722-017-0076-y |
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| Authors |
Ryan P. Westergaard, Andrew Genz, Kristen Panico, Pamela J. Surkan, Jeanne Keruly, Heidi E. Hutton, Larry W. Chang, Gregory D. Kirk |
| Abstract |
Persons living with HIV and substance use disorders face barriers to sustained engagement in medical care, leading to suboptimal antiretroviral treatment outcomes. Innovative mobile technology tools such as customizable smartphone applications have the potential to enhance existing care coordination programs, but have not been rigorously studied. We developed and implemented a two-component intervention consisting of peer health navigation supported by a smartphone application conducting ecologic momentary assessment (EMA) of barriers to care and medication adherence. Patients with a history of antiretroviral treatment failure and substance use were recruited to participate in the 9-month pilot intervention. Three peer health navigators were trained to provide social and logistical support while participants re-engaged in HIV care. We assessed the acceptability of the intervention components using qualitative analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with study participants and peer navigators. Of 19 patients enrolled in the study, 17 participated for at least 2 months and 15 completed the entire 9-month study protocol. The acceptability of the peer navigation intervention was rated favorably by all participants interviewed, who felt that peer support was instrumental in helping them re-engage in HIV care. Participants also responded favorably to the smartphone application, but described its usefulness mostly as providing reminders to take medications and attend appointments, rather than as a facilitator of patient navigation. Peer health navigation and smartphone-based EMA are acceptable approaches to facilitating engagement in HIV care for drug using populations. Future studies to evaluate the efficacy of this approach for improving long-term retention in care and antiretroviral treatment outcomes are warranted. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier NCT01941108; registered on September 4, 2013. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
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| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
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| Type | Count | As % |
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| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 246 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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| Student > Master | 50 | 20% |
| Researcher | 30 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 21 | 9% |
| Other | 13 | 5% |
| Other | 42 | 17% |
| Unknown | 69 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nursing and Health Professions | 42 | 17% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 33 | 13% |
| Psychology | 25 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 24 | 10% |
| Computer Science | 10 | 4% |
| Other | 28 | 11% |
| Unknown | 84 | 34% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 April 2020.
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#8,264,793
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#256
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