Body Image in Youth With HIV

HIV Clinical Trial

Official title:

Body Image in Youth With HIV

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01673750
• Other study ID #: HIVBI
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 21, 2012
• Last updated: April 11, 2014
• Start date: October 2012
• Est. completion date: December 2013

Study information

• Verified date: April 2014
• Source: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This is an observational study that seeks to gather information about perceptions of body image through the use of a one-time questionnaire completed by participants at the time of study enrollment.

Effective management of Human Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) caused by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has become possible through the use of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment (HAART). As a result of more successful treatment options, HIV/AIDS has transitioned from a terminal illness to one which is treated as a chronic condition. One particular group that has been impacted tremendously by HIV in the United States is the adolescent population. As youth are living longer with HIV/AIDS, clinicians and researchers are beginning to examine ways in which the disease can affect one's physical health, mental health, and other psychosocial factors. Research emerging involving adults with HIV/AIDS has suggested that increased attention to and negative views of one's body image may be found at a higher rate in this group. To our knowledge, very few studies have examined this relationship in adolescents with HIV.

Description:

The purpose of this exploratory study is to characterize body image perceptions among youth with perinatally and behaviorally acquired HIV. In a cross-sectional design, adolescents will be asked to complete an ACASI questionnaire that will assess body image, medication adherence, depressive symptoms, medical, and other sociodemographic variables which may relate to adolescents with HIV. Information regarding the adolescents' medical history, medications, and physical functioning also will be abstracted from his or her medical record. Guided by the Intervention Mapping (IM) approach, findings from this study will inform future intervention studies designed to enhance HIV disease management among adolescents.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE:

To characterize body image perceptions among youth with HIV.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 146
• Est. completion date: December 2013
• Est. primary completion date: December 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 16 Years to 23 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Diagnosis of HIV infection as documented in adolescent's medical record

• Adolescent is aware of his/her HIV diagnosis

• The adolescent/caregiver's primary language in English

• Adolescent is = 16 and < 24 years old

• Adolescent is willing and able to provide consent per institutional guidelines

Exclusion Criteria:

• Adolescent has documented diagnosis of mental retardation or a significant motor or sensory impairment that would preclude participation in the study survey.

• Adolescent has known acute psychiatric illness, including suicidal ideation, homicidal ideation or active psychosis.

• Adolescent is a pregnant female.

Study Design

Observational Model: Cohort, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
• HIV
• HIV Infections
• Human Immunodeficiency Virus
• Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes

Intervention

Other:
• Questionnaire
The primary outcome, characterizing body image among HIV infected adolescents, will be measured using a questionnaire administered to study participants through Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interview (ACASI) technology.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	St. Jude Children's Research Hospital	Memphis	Tennessee

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reported level of normative body image and discrepancy between perceived body image and preferred body image	The MBSRQ-AS is a well-validated self-report inventory for the assessment of body image (BI). It has five subscales: Appearance Evaluation, Appearance Orientation, Overweight Preoccupation, Self-Classified Weight, Body Areas Satisfaction Scale. Descriptive analyses (means and standard deviations of overall scores and means for each subscale) will be reported.; The Figure Rating Scale is a culturally relevant measure modeled after Stunkard's widely used nine-figure scale of schematic figures of varying size. Participants will be asked to identify which BI they find most similar to their current body type and which BI would be ideal or preferred. A BI discrepancy (BID) score will be calculated for each subject based on their responses on the Figure Rating Scale: negative BID score indicates the subject's ideal BI is larger than perceived; positive BID score indicates the subject wants to be smaller/thinner than perceived; score of zero indicates the subject prefers his/her perceived BI.	Once at time of participant enrollment	No

External Links

•   St. Jude Children's Research Hospital