Two Approaches to Providing HIV/AIDS Services in the Community to People Living With HIV/AIDS

HIV Infection Clinical Trial

Official title:

Two Approaches to Providing HIV/AIDS Services in the Community to People Living With HIV/AIDS (PHAs): The Comparative Impact on Quality of Life, Access to and Expenditures for All Health and Social Services

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Not yet recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00280449
• Other study ID #: 05-357
• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: January 20, 2006
• Last updated: January 20, 2006
• Start date: March 2006
• Est. completion date: February 2007

Study information

• Verified date: November 2005
• Source: McMaster University
• Contact: Robin Weir, PhD
• Phone: 905-5259140
• Email: weirr[@]mcmaster.ca
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Canada: Health Canada
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study will examine the effects of having a case manager help PHAs access and use health, social services and practical resources that are helpful to their needs as compared to the usual more PHA self-managed approach of deciding and using services as they see necessary. New and existing users of HIV/AIDS services in Wellington-Dufferin, Waterloo and Grey-Bruce Regions who consent to this study will be randomized to receive their usual self-directed supportive, educational, medical and medical care services when they seek assistance according to their needs or these usual services augmented by case management services. They will be measured before randomization and at 3, 6 and 12 months following service use for their satisfaction with HIV/AIDS services, compliance with HIV/AIDS medication, improvement in quality of life, psychological distress, risk behaviours and expenditures for the use of a range of publicly funded services.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Enrollment: 120
• Est. completion date: February 2007
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• HIV-positive individuals

• living in the community setting

Exclusion Criteria:

• cognitive impairment

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double-Blind, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• HIV Infection

Intervention

Behavioral:
• strengths-based case managed proactive service model

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Canada	McMaster University	Hamilton	Ontario

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Canada, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	risk behavior, quality of life, health and social service utilization
Secondary	depression, satisfaction