A Psychosocial Tele-health Stigma Intervention for Youth Living With HIV in Vietnam

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For the pilot, we will recruit YLHIV on ART who self-report intrapersonal stigma and implement a 12-week pre-post intervention study in which participants will receive the phone-based intervention developed in the first phase. YLHIV will use an electronic adherence monitoring device for their ART me...

For the pilot, we will recruit YLHIV on ART who self-report intrapersonal stigma and implement a 12-week pre-post intervention study in which participants will receive the phone-based intervention developed in the first phase. YLHIV will use an electronic adherence monitoring device for their ART medications. In the pre-post intervention study, each of 40 patients will be followed for a total of 16 weeks. All patient subjects will be given an eCAP wireless pill container (WPC) that will be used to measure their adherence throughout the 16-week period. Study participation will involve two phases, with the following activities: I. Adherence monitoring, pre-intervention period (Weeks 1-2). Once enrolled, we will provide each subject with a WPC and instruction on correct use. We will select one medication for each WPC. While subjects continue to receive care as usual, we will collect their adherence data using the WPC. II. Intervention period (Weeks 3-12). The intervention will be implemented for about 10 weeks; adherence data will be collected via WPCs through Week 16. They will remain blinded to the adherence information generated by the devices, as will their care providers.

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