Addressing Psychosocial Comorbidities in HIV Treatment and Prevention

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Depression, Mental Health

In brief

Project AProaCH is an open pilot trial of a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for individuals with HIV with various psychological comorbidities, which the investigators call "syndemics". Syndemics are co-occurring psychosocial problems that interact with each other and with health behavior such as HIV sexual transmission risk behavior and adherence to self care.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02696681

Run by

University of Miami

People needed

27

Starts

2016-03-01

Expected to finish

2018-09-18

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-06

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• HIV+ individuals
• Uncontrolled virus (plasma HIV RNA concentrations that reach detectable limits) or being diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) (gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis, trichomoniasis (female only)) currently or within the past 3 months.

You may not qualify if…

• Unable or unwilling to provide informed consent
• Active untreated, unstable, major mental illness (i.e., untreated psychosis or mania) that would interfere with study participation
• Opinion of the PI that the participant would be at risk for harm to himself or others as a result of study participation,
• Under the age of 18 or over the age of 65,
• Current CBT for a psychiatric disorder, or a course of CBT in the past year.

Where it is running

• University of Miami — Miami, Florida, United States

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