Measures of Non-Adherence to HIV Treatment
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Ingersoll, K. (2004). The impact of psychiatric symptoms, drug use, and medication regimen on non-adherence to HIV treatment. AIDS Care, 16(2), 199-211.
Demographics: Standard demographic questions, HIV-specific demographic questions, employment, health insurance status, housing status, partner status, method of transmission of HIV, whether the person had recently, ever, or never engaged in selected transmission risk behaviors, and sexual orientation.
Health Status: Participant’s current health status (including CDC classification that indicated HIV or AIDS), history of opportunistic infections, currently prescribed regimen, three most recent CD4 and three most recent viral load counts, diagnostic codes, and staff comments regarding adherence
HIV Treatment Regimen: Interview covering protease inhibitor (PI) regimens, PI-sparing regimens, experience with side effects, opportunistic infection prophylaxis, attitudes about medication, barriers to treatment, and adherence behaviors. Asked whether each participant was now taking each medication, the current does, dose schedule, dosing requirements, and side effects related to medications.
Adherence: Proportion of PI medications taken during the past week (proportion of 95% or greater – High, 94% and below – Low), self-report response to the question “Have you ever run out of your HIV medications?”, self-report response to the question “Do you always take all of your medications as directed?”, and a collateral report of adherence derived from the electronic medical record.
Substance Abuse: Queried whether the participant had ever used a list of commonly abused substances including nicotine, alcohol, amphetamines, cocaine, heroin or opioids, hallucinogens, marijuana, drug combinations, and other drugs. Participants were also asked if they considered themselves to have a ‘primary drug’ or ‘drug of choice’ and whether any drug was causing them problems or had in the past.
Mental Distress: Used the Composite International Diagnostic Interview – Short form (CIDI-SF) to screen for Axis I mental disorders
Reliability information was not available.
Validity information was not available.
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Ingersoll, K. (2004). The impact of psychiatric symptoms, drug use, and medication regimen on non-adherence to HIV treatment. AIDS Care, 16(2), 199-211.
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