Information and Communication Technology to Link Criminal Justice Reentrants to HIV Care in the Community
Open Access
- 1 January 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in AIDS Research and Treatment
- Vol. 2013, 1-6
- https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/547381
Abstract
The United States has the world’s highest prison population, and an estimated one in seven HIV-positive persons in the USA passes through a correctional facility annually. Given this, it is critical to develop innovative and effective approaches to support HIV treatment and retention in care among HIV-positive individuals involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile health (mHealth) interventions, may offer one component of a successful strategy for linkage/retention in care. We describe CARE+ Corrections, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) study now underway in Washington, that will evaluate the combined effect of computerized motivational interview counseling and postrelease short message service (SMS) text message reminders to increase antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence and linkage and retention in care among HIV-infected persons involved in the criminal justice system. In this report, we describe the development of this ICT/mHealth intervention, outline the study procedures used to evaluate this intervention, and summarize the implications for the mHealth knowledge base.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01DA030747, P30AI42853, 5P30AI087714-02)
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