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The Healthy Living Project: an individually tailored, multidimensional intervention for HIV-infected persons. AIDS Educ Prev 2005 Feb;17(1 Suppl A):21-39

Date

04/22/2005

Pubmed ID

15843115

DOI

10.1521/aeap.17.2.21.58691

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-20044389828 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   62 Citations

Abstract

The NIMH Healthy Living Project (HLP), a randomized behavioral intervention trial for people living with HIV, enrolled 943 individuals, including women, heterosexual men, injection drug users, and men who have sex with men from Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, and San Francisco. The intervention, which is based on qualitative formative research and Ewart's Social Action Theory, addresses three interrelated aspects of living with HIV: stress and coping, transmission risk behavior, and medication adherence. Fifteen 90-minute structured sessions, divided into 3 modules of five sessions each, are delivered to individuals. Sessions are tailored to individuals within a structure that uses role-plays, problem solving, and goal setting techniques. A 'Life Project'--or overarching goal related to personal striving-provides continuity throughout sessions. Because this is an ongoing project with efficacy yet to be established, we do not report intervention outcomes. However, the intervention was designed to be useful for prevention case management, settings where repeated one-on-one contact is possible, and where a structured but highly individualized intervention approach is desired.

Author List

Gore-Felton C, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Weinhardt LS, Kelly JA, Lightfoot M, Kirshenbaum SB, Johnson MO, Chesney MA, Catz SL, Ehrhardt AA, Remien RH, Morin SF, NIMH Healthy Living Project Team

Authors

Jeffrey A. Kelly PhD Professor in the Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine department at Medical College of Wisconsin
Lance S. Weinhardt MS,PhD Associate Dean for Research and Professor of Community and Behavioral Health Promotion in the Joseph. J. Zilber School of Public Health department at University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Female
HIV Infections
Health Promotion
Humans
Male
Motivation
National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)
Patient Compliance
Risk Reduction Behavior
Safe Sex
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
United States