HIV Infection, Pregnancy
Conditions
Brief 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.
Interventions
OTHERquestionaires 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
Sponsors
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
HIV infected pregnant women who * HIV-infected women who are pregnant by confirmatory tests or an HIV positive woman who has had a baby within the last 6 months and is coming to care postpartum. * Women who intend to get care at Harris County Hospital District. * Subjects must be \>18 years old.
Exclusion criteria
* Women unable to complete questionnaires. * Women who are unable to speak, read, or understand English or Spanish.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| evaluate results from qualitative interviews | women seen after they have their baby | we will ask and record responses and enter into an NIVIVO program to evaluate for emergent themes |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| evaluate results from questionaires | before they have a baby and after they have a baby | we will evaluate responses from questionaires There will be 8 areas that there are questionnaires about. These include basic information about yourself, about stress, about your support system, about your sense of control, about tobacco use, about for alcohol/drug use, about taking your HIV medications, and about depression. |
Countries
United States
Outcome results
None listed