对传统治疗师的非专业艾滋病毒支持计划的调整和试点测试:乌干达农村的一个混合方法研究
Radhika Sundararajan1,2, Matthew Ponticiello3, Giselle Birch4
1Center for Global Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA. ras9199@med.cornell.edu.
Implementation science communications
|July 27, 2023
概括
培训传统治疗师作为世俗支持人员成功地将艾滋病毒感染者 (PLWH) 重新与护理联系起来,并改善了乌干达的ART坚持. 这项干预表明了高连接率,坚持和保留率,解决了撒哈拉以南非洲艾滋病毒治疗的关键障碍.
科学领域:
- 全球健康 全球健康
- 艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究研究
- 社区卫生干预措施 社区卫生干预
背景情况:
- 在撒哈拉以南非洲艾滋病毒感染者 (PLWH) 中,艾滋病毒护理违约率很高,特别是在两年内.
- 撒哈拉以南非洲地区传统治疗师 (TH) 的无处不在存在,经常作为医疗保健联系的第一点.
- 假设训练有素的TH可以支持艾滋病毒护理联系和对默认PLWH的ART坚持.
研究的目的:
- 根据ADAPT-ITT框架,调整一个基于证据的平民支持计划,供乌干达传统治疗师 (TH) 提供.
- 评估TH提供的支持在将失败的PLWH重新连接到艾滋病毒治疗和改善ART坚持方面的有效性.
- 评估二次结果,包括ART重新启动,坚持和留在护理中.
主要方法:
- 利用ADAPT-ITT框架进行干预调整,包括需求评估,调整和专家反.
- 在乌干达姆巴拉拉镇进行了一项混合方法前性队列试点研究.
- 包括12个TH和20个成年PLWH与亚最佳ART坚持;主要结果是14天内重新连接到护理.
主要成果:
- 后勤挑战 (距离,成本),耻辱和缺乏社会支持被确定为艾滋病毒护理参与的主要障碍.
- 干预的核心要素:TH促进快速重新连接,并提供心理社会支持.
- 试点研究在14天内实现了100%的重新链接和ART启动,95%的ART坚持,9个月后100%的保留.
结论:
- ADAPT-ITT框架有效地指导了对TH的平支持干预措施的调整.
- 训练有素的TH成功地促进了PLWH的重新连接,ART的坚持和在护理中保持.
- 建议进行进一步的研究,以评估这种干预措施的可扩展性和长期影响.
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