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- Title
Nurse-Led Mobile Phone Voice Call Reminder and On-Time Antiretroviral Pills Pick-Up in Nepal: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
- Authors
Ayer, Rakesh; Poudel, Krishna C.; Kikuchi, Kimiyo; Ghimire, Mamata; Shibanuma, Akira; Jimba, Masamine
- Abstract
This study investigates the efficacy of a nurse-led mobile phone voice call reminder intervention in improving on-time antiretroviral (ARV) pills collection in Nepal. Between October and December 2017, 468 HIV-positive individuals were recruited randomly and assigned to either nurse-led mobile phone voice call reminder (intervention) group or voice call with health promotion message (control) group, 234 were allocated to each group. We assessed on-time pills pick-up at baseline and six-month follow-up and analyzed it by intention-to-treat method. In the intervention group, participants improved their on-time ARV pills pick-up from 60% (141/234) at baseline to 71% (151/234) at the six-month follow-up. After adjusting for covariates, those in the intervention group were significantly more likely to pick-up their pills on-time than those in the control group (intervention × time; adjusted odds ratio 2.02, 95% CI 1.15–3.55). Nurse-led mobile phone voice call reminder is efficacious to improve on-time ARV collection.
- Subjects
NEPAL; CLINICAL drug trials; CELL phones; HIV infections; HIV-positive persons; ANTI-HIV agents; HEALTH care reminder systems; EVALUATION of human services programs; CONFIDENCE intervals; NURSING specialties; ANTIRETROVIRAL agents; RANDOMIZED controlled trials; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PATIENT compliance; STATISTICAL sampling; ODDS ratio; NURSING interventions; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
AIDS & Behavior, 2021, Vol 25, Issue 6, p1923
- ISSN
1090-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10461-020-03122-7