Trial reportAIDS care2012
HealthCall: technology-based extension of motivational interviewing to reduce non-injection drug use in HIV primary care patients - a pilot study.
Trial report in AIDS care, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 31 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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HealthCall: Brief Intervention to Reduce Drug Use in HIV Primary Care
HealthCall: Brief Intervention to Reduce Drug Use in HIV Primary Care
Who cites it
31 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of Dropout and Influencing Factors in Digital Psychosocial Intervention Trials for Adult Illicit Substance Users: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Pooled it
- Feasibility and Effects of Digital Interventions to Support People in Recovery From Substance Use Disorders: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Pooled it
- Integrating HIV and substance use services: a systematic review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2017Pooled it
- Automated telephone communication systems for preventive healthcare and management of long-term conditions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Interactive telemedicine: effects on professional practice and health care outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Telephone delivered interventions for reducing morbidity and mortality in people with HIV infection.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Motivational interviewing targeting risk reduction for people with HIV: a systematic review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2012Pooled it
- Recent advances (2011-2012) in technology-delivered interventions for people living with HIV.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2012Pooled it
- Economic Cost of the HealthCall Smartphone Intervention to Reduce Heavy Alcohol Drinking in Adults With HIV.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2023Trial
- HealthCall: A randomized trial assessing a smartphone enhancement of brief interventions to reduce heavy drinking in HIV care.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Trial
- A randomized clinical trial of mobile phone motivational interviewing for alcohol use problems in Kenya.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2020Trial
- HealthCall delivered via smartphone to reduce co-occurring drug and alcohol use in HIV-infected adults: A randomized pilot trial.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Trial
- Reducing non-injection drug use in HIV primary care: A randomized trial of brief motivational interviewing, with and without HealthCall, a technology-based enhancement.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Trial
- Smartphone self-monitoring to support self-management among people living with HIV: perceived benefits and theory of change from a mixed-methods randomized pilot study.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2015Trial
- COMBINE EBIs: A novel COllaborative Method for Building INterventions from Existing Evidence-Based Interventions.Annals of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Technology-Based Interventions for Substance Use Treatment Among People Who Identify as African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino, and American Indian or Alaska Native: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- A case of multiple ART intolerance responds to Albuvirtide and Dolutegravir: Case report and literature review.Heliyon · 2024Article
- A Digital Counselor-Delivered Intervention for Substance Use Among People With HIV: Development and Usability Study.JMIR formative research · 2023Article
- Text-Messaging, Online Peer Support Group, and Coaching Strategies to Optimize the HIV Prevention Continuum for Youth: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Substance Use Screening in HIV Care Settings: a Review and Critique of the Literature.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2019Review
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
To reduce non-injection drug use (NIDU) among HIV primary care patients, more than a single brief intervention may be needed, but clinic resources are often too limited for extended interventions. To extend brief motivational interviewing (MI) to reduce NIDU, we designed and conducted a pilot study of "HealthCall," consisting of brief (1-3 minutes) daily patient calls reporting NIDU and health behaviors to a telephone-based interactive voice response (IVR) system, which provided data for subsequent personalized feedback. Urban HIV adult clinic patients reporting ≥4 days of NIDU in the previous month were randomized to two groups: MI-only (n=20) and MI+HealthCall (n=20). At 30 and 60 days, patients were assessed and briefly discussed their NIDU behaviors with their counselors. The outcome was the number of days patients used their primary drug in the prior 30 days. Medical marijuana issues precluded HealthCall with patients whose primary substance was marijuana (n=7); excluding these, 33 remained, of whom 28 patients (MI-only n=17; MI+HealthCall n=11) provided post-treatment data for analysis. Time significantly predicted reduction in "days used" in both groups (p<0.0001). At 60 days, between-group differences approached trend level, with an effect size of 0.62 favoring the MI+HealthCall arm. This pilot study suggests that HealthCall is feasible and acceptable to patients in resource-limited HIV primary care settings and can extend patient involvement in brief intervention with little additional staff time. A larger efficacy trial of HealthCall for NIDU-reduction in such settings is warranted.
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