Testing the effectiveness of an evidence-based transdiagnostic cognitive behavioral therapy approach for improving HIV treatment outcomes among violence-affected and virally unsuppressed women in SA

测试基于证据的跨诊断认知行为治疗方法对改善南澳受暴力影响和病毒未抑制的女性艾滋病毒治疗结果的有效性

• 批准号: 9913120
• 负责人: Matthew Alexander Pease Fox
• 金额: $ 72.37万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-03-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9913120
• 关键词: Address; Adherence; Affect; Alcohol abuse; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Anxiety; Caring; Clinical; Clinical Trials; Cognitive Therapy; Communities; Cost Analysis; Counseling; Disease; Effectiveness; Elements; Evidence based intervention; Face; Female; HIV; Individual; Infection; Intervention; Iraq; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Mental Health; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Movement; Outcome; Patients; Population; Prevalence; Professional counselor; Randomized Controlled Trials; Severities; South Africa; Testing; Treatment outcome; Violence; Viral; Viral Load result; Woman; Work; Zambia; active control; antiretroviral therapy; base; behavioral health; comorbidity; cost; cost effective; cost effectiveness; effectiveness testing; evidence base; experience; flexibility; improved; innovation; intimate partner violence; low and middle-income countries; male; mortality; patient-level barriers; post-traumatic stress; primary outcome; randomized trial; standard of care; therapy adherence; transmission process; traumatic stress; treatment program

Project Summary There are currently just under one million people with HIV in South Africa who have initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) but remain unsuppressed. South Africa has been making progress towards UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets but has only reached 47% of those infected being virally suppressed. Therefore, if effective approaches can be found to keep patients on treatment, adhering, and virally suppressed, the impact could be significant. In South Africa, one major barrier to consistent treatment is intimate partner violence (IPV) as nearly 50% of women have experienced IPV. Addressing IPV could have effects in supporting patients on HIV treatment to continue to adhere. The Common Elements Treatment Approach (CETA) is an evidence-based intervention comprised of cognitive-behavioral therapy elements. It is transdiagnostic in that it can flexibly address a range of problems and represents the current movement in global mental health as a more cost effective, scalable and sustainable model. CETA is one of the most promising interventions to impact HIV outcomes through addressing violence To evaluate CETA, we propose a randomized controlled trial of HIV-infected women, with or without their partners, who have experienced IPV and have an unsuppressed viral load to test the effect of CETA on increasing viral suppression and reducing violence. The study has three aims: Aim 1: Among HIV-infected women on ART who have experienced IPV and have an unsuppressed viral load, to assess the effectiveness of CETA vs. active control at increasing the proportion retained and virally suppressed by 12 months and at decreasing the severity of IPV and other mental and behavioral health problems using an individually randomized trial. Aim 2: To identify mediators and moderators of CETA’s effect on the primary outcome (retention and viral suppression). Aim 3: To assess the cost and cost-effectiveness of CETA vs. active control at increasing the proportion of women who have experienced IPV who are retained and virally suppressed by 12 months. The study question is significant given the prevalence of IPV in female patients with unsuppressed viral loads in South Africa and the potential for improving viral suppression by addressing IPV and its sequelae. If effective, this approach could have a significant global impact on outcomes for virally unsuppressed women and reduce transmission to uninfected partners. It is innovative in utilizing an evidence-based approach (CETA) shown to affect IPV as well as many other problems that contribute to poor HIV treatment outcomes.

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