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Medication adherence feedback intervention predicts improved human immunodeficiency virus clinical markers
Author(s) -
Reich Warren A
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international journal of nursing practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.62
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1440-172X
pISSN - 1322-7114
DOI - 10.1111/ijn.12100
Subject(s) - medicine , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , intervention (counseling) , viral load , pill , medication adherence , physical therapy , immunology , psychiatry , nursing
Thirty‐three participants in a human immunodeficiency virus ( HIV ) medication adherence feedback ( MAF ) intervention were compared with 58 HIV ‐positive non‐participants in laboratory‐tested CD 4 and viral load. The intervention provided adherence feedback and counselling based on a visual display from an electronic pill bottle ( MEMS TM ). Multiple regression controlling for baseline CD 4 and showed that postintervention CD 4 was higher for MAF participants than for non‐ MAF participants. Non‐ MAF participants' CD 4 significantly declined over time. MAF participants were also less likely than non‐ MAF participants to have a detectable postintervention viral load.