Kurth Ann, Kuo Irene, Peterson James, Azikiwe Nkiru, Bazerman Lauri, Cates Alice, Beckwith Curt G
College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
AIDS Res Treat. 2013;2013:547381. doi: 10.1155/2013/547381. Epub 2013 Jul 28.
The United States has the world's highest prison population, and an estimated one in seven HIV-positive persons in the USA passes through a correctional facility annually. Given this, it is critical to develop innovative and effective approaches to support HIV treatment and retention in care among HIV-positive individuals involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile health (mHealth) interventions, may offer one component of a successful strategy for linkage/retention in care. We describe CARE+ Corrections, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) study now underway in Washington, that will evaluate the combined effect of computerized motivational interview counseling and postrelease short message service (SMS) text message reminders to increase antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence and linkage and retention in care among HIV-infected persons involved in the criminal justice system. In this report, we describe the development of this ICT/mHealth intervention, outline the study procedures used to evaluate this intervention, and summarize the implications for the mHealth knowledge base.
美国拥有全球最高的监狱人口数量，据估计，美国每年每七名艾滋病毒呈阳性的人中就有一人会经过惩教机构。鉴于此，开发创新且有效的方法以支持刑事司法（CJ）系统中感染艾滋病毒的个体接受艾滋病毒治疗并持续接受护理至关重要。信息通信技术（ICTs），包括移动健康（mHealth）干预措施，可能是成功实现护理联系/持续护理策略的一个组成部分。我们介绍“关怀 + 惩教”项目，这是一项正在华盛顿进行的随机对照试验（RCT）研究，该研究将评估计算机化动机访谈咨询与释放后短信服务（SMS）短信提醒相结合的效果，以提高参与刑事司法系统的艾滋病毒感染者的抗逆转录病毒疗法（ART）依从性以及护理联系和持续护理率。在本报告中，我们描述了这种ICT/mHealth干预措施的开发过程，概述了用于评估该干预措施的研究程序，并总结了其对mHealth知识库的影响。
