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Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
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Research Article

Telephone-delivered behavioral health interventions for people living with HIV: patients’ perspectives from a qualitative study

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Pages 1155-1158 | Received 20 Feb 2020, Accepted 13 Oct 2020, Published online: 02 Nov 2020
 

ABSTRACT

People living with HIV (PLWH) often experience mental health concerns as well as difficulties with medication adherence; they also report barriers to receipt of health services. Telephone-delivered interventions can overcome some of these barriers. To obtain patients’ perspectives on telephone-delivered behavioral health services, we conducted a qualitative study with patients who participated in one of two telephone-delivered interventions (mindfulness training, health coaching) in a research trial. Patients (N = 42; M age = 46 years, 50% female, 26% Black) participated in semi-structured qualitative interviews after completing the study. They identified several advantages (e.g., being able to schedule sessions more flexibly compared to in-person appointments, ease of developing rapport with interventionists) as well as occasional challenges of phone delivery (e.g., network connectivity). Overall, PLWH view telephone-delivery as a convenient and flexible method to engage in behavioral health interventions.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

The research reported herein was supported by the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health of the National Institutes of Health under award number R34-AT008930 to Michael P. Carey, PhD and Elena Salmoirago-Blotcher, MD, PhD (Multiple-PIs). Eugene M. Dunne, PhD is supported by a Career Development Award from NCCIH [grant number K23-AT010099]. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

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