Improve Functional Health Status in Minority Women With HIV

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Conditions studied: HIV/AIDS

In brief

HIV is no longer a death sentence, and with adherence to Rapid High Activity Antiretroviral (HAART) protocol women with HIV can achieve a normal life expectancy. In New Jersey there are 11,724 (32.9%) women living with HIV with Essex county in the lead, and they come they come from lowest social strata and educational level and are often single mothers. The purpose of this study is test three study interventions: a cognitive health promotion intervention, a guided imagery intervention and combination of both interventions. The Significance of the study is to improve the functional health and protocol adherence, to better enable women with HIV to achieve a normal life expectancy. The Methodology is an intervention study that uses a classic four group pretest post-test experimental design with random assignment, and the subjects for the study will be 80 women living with HIV. The interventions will be delivered within a three-week time frame followed by post testing at the end of the third week in Newark,New Jersey. The results of this study will be used as preliminary data to support a grant proposal to be submitted to the National Institutes of Health. The Results of this study are important as they will support improved health function and adherence to treatment protocols for marginalized poor women with HIV to achieve outcomes on par with men.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT04315675
Run by
Seton Hall University
People needed
80
Starts
2020-04-01
Expected to finish
2020-12-31
Last updated by the study team
2020-03-19

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

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Where it is running

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