This policy briefs addresses how will new cost-sharing fees proposed for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program affect people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in California. The governor’s cost-sharing proposal for ADAP will likely be a significant financial barrier to ADAP’s low-income beneficiaries. This is particularly problematic considering the high costs of these life-saving medications.
Dealing With Illness scale was designed to assess cognitive and behavioral responses made in efforts to cope with illness and was based on Billings and Moos’ (1981) description of three methods of coping. Items selected for the scale were from Amerikan’s (1985) Dealing With Illness coping instrument and the Moos, Cronkite, Billings, and Finney (1984) Healthand Daily Living Form.
This survey assesses what some people do to help them to deal with their mother’s illness. For example, some people react emotionally like crying and getting upset all the time, while others deal with their mother’s illness differently, like getting high or drunk often.
This scale measures for people living with HIV using the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV) instrument (Ichikawa, 2004; Wu, 1997). Three subscales from the MOS-HIV (general health, mental health, and physical health) were used in this study. Revicki, D.A., Sorensen, S., Wu, A.W. (1998). Reliability and validity of physical health and mental health summary scores from the MOS HIV Health Survey. Med Care, 36, 126–137.
The STAR (Staying healthy: Taking Antiretrovirals Regularly) intervention takes the best strategies available from prior adherence and behavior change research and utilizes them in an interdisciplinary adherence intervention trial for HIV-infected individuals having difficulty following their antiretroviral regimen. Through providing for HIV+ patients a tailored, behavioral intervention that includes social support and patient education components, as well as maintenance booster session, the STAR intervention aims to promote medication adherence and effective problem-solving related to medication adherence among HIV+ individuals.
The STAR (Staying healthy: Taking Antiretrovirals Regularly) intervention takes the best strategies available from prior adherence and behavior change research and utilizes them in an interdisciplinary adherence intervention trial for HIV-infected individuals having difficulty following their antiretroviral regimen. Through providing for HIV+ patients a tailored, behavioral intervention that includes social support and patient education components, as well as maintenance booster session, the STAR intervention aims to promote medication adherence and effective problem-solving related to medication adherence among HIV+ individuals.
Results of a small pilot trial of a multicomponent (behavioral strategies, simplified patient information, and social support) and multidisciplinary (cognitive-behavioral therapy and nursing) medication adherence intervention was conducted for HIV-infected adults prescribed antiretrovirals. The intervention, however, did not appear to affect health-related anxiety or to significantly improve adherence to dose. Implications for future intervention planning are discussed.
This Family to Family Intervention Manual aims to help families explore emotion and feeling management , positive thinking and doing, medical adherence & access to care, and self-care in daily routine.