Theory-based HIV Disclosure Intervention for Parents

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Conditions studied: HIV/AIDS, Disclosure

In brief

The investigators propose to develop, implement, and evaluate a theory-driven parental disclosure intervention to assist parents living with HIV (PLH) to make a planned, developmentally appropriate disclosure of their HIV status to their uninfected children or, for PLH with younger children, to articulate a clear plan for disclosure to their children when developmentally appropriate. The majority of the 33.4 million individuals living with HIV worldwide reside in low-resource settings and are also of reproductive and child-rearing age. It is therefore important to the field of public health to develop an evidence-based parental disclosure intervention that can be effectively delivered to parents by a broad range of paraprofessionals. The investigators hypothesize that the proposed intervention will demonstrate efficacy in helping PLH to make developmentally appropriate disclosure to children or make a developmentally appropriate plan of disclosure and will demonstrate short, medium, and long-term efficacy in improving the well-being of parents, children, and families. The proposed scientifically rigorous evaluation includes mixed methods of data collection, a cluster randomized controlled trial, multiple data sources, and a 36-month longitudinal follow-up involving a large sample of parents, children, and providers. The intervention program to be developed and the evaluation data to be collected in the current study will inform the practice and clinic guidelines aimed at improving both parental HIV disclosure and the well-being of PLH, children and families in China and other low-and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT04051177

Run by

University of South Carolina

People needed

791

Starts

2012-08-01

Expected to finish

2018-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-09

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• at least 18 years of age;
• a confirmed diagnosis of HIV or AIDS;
• living with at least one child 6 to 15 years of age;
• having not disclosed their HIV status to their children;
• willing to consent one child to participate in the study.

You may not qualify if…

• linguistic, mental or physical inability to respond to assessment questions or to participate in intervention;
• currently incarcerated or institutionalized for drug use or commercial sex;
• plan to permanently relocate outside of the province within a year.

Where it is running

• University of South Carolina — Columbia, South Carolina, United States

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