Intervening With Haitian Immigrants in the U.S. to Improve HIV Outcomes
Florida International University
Summary
The goal of this clinical trial is to test a culturally tailored engagement and retention intervention for Haitian Immigrants Living With HIV (HILWH). The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does this intervention result in measurable engagement and retention in care? * Does this intervention result in measurable viral suppression within 6 months? Participants will * participate in a pilot health intervention entailing 4 individual meetings, approximately once monthly over a six-month period and completing research questionnaires at enrollment, post-intervention and at 6 months post-enrollment. * Six participants who have completed the pilot intervention and agree to take part, will participate in the photovoice portion of the study. This activity will consist of 6 additional meetings where participants will be taught about using photographs to illustrate their experience participating in the study and take and display photographs.
Description
Research design: The proposed study will test a culturally tailored engagement and retention intervention for Haitian immigrants living with HIV (HILWH). This is sequential mixed-methods formative pilot research that is designed to examine engagement and retention in care, and viral suppression (VS) for HILWH and adapt a promising intervention that will result in viral suppression between baseline and a 6 month follow-up assessment. The pilot will be conducted as a prospective, quasi-experimental single arm with a sample of newly diagnosed or nonvirally suppressed HIWLH adults drawn from 2 Fed…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 18+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria: 1. Seropositive for HIV 2. Either a recent HIV diagnosis (within the last 2 months) or non-virally suppressed. 3. Migrated to the US from Haiti Exclusion Criteria: 1\. Virally suppressed
Interventions
- Behavioralan adaptation of the iENGAGE
Haitian immigrant iENGAGE (H-iENGAGE) is an adaptation of the iENGAGE intervention culturally adapted for Haitian immigrants with HIV that will be tested in a quasi-experimental pilot for preliminary efficacy among recently diagnosed or nonvirally suppressed adults across two Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) in Miami.
Location
- Care Resource, Inc.Miami, Florida