HIV Infection Primary
Conditions
Keywords
HIV viral suppression, community health worker
Brief summary
The goal of this research is to determine whether a Community Health Worker (CHW) intervention including a mobile telehealth (M-Health) component can help achieve long term viral suppression among Black people with poorly controlled HIV.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALINSTACARE
CHWs will provide participants with support via phone calls, home-visits, and accompaniment to clinic visits to improve medication management and HIV viral suppression. CHWs will contact participants at least once per week for three months.
Sponsors
University of Miami
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Ages 18 years or older * Miami-Dade Resident at time of enrollment * self-identify as Black * Viral load \> 200 mL within the last 6-months (VL must be verified via electronic medical record or lab report prior to enrollment)
Exclusion criteria
* Any other condition(s) that the treating clinician determines would limit participant from meaningful study participation.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Communication Preferences | 3 months | Communication preferences will be reported as the number of participants who prefer any of the following intervention modes of administration: text messaging, phone calls, home visits, accompaniment to clinic visits, utilization of existing health portals and phone applications. Data will be collected via survey administered to participants by CHW. |
| Number of CHW contacts | 3 months | CHW contacts with participants will be extracted from CHW tracking logs. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
CONTACTAshley J Gray, MPH
CONTACTSonjia Kenya, EdD
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORSonjia Kenya, EdD
University of Miami
Outcome results
None listed