ArticleBMC health services research2016
MAHILA: a protocol for evaluating a nurse-delivered mHealth intervention for women with HIV and psychosocial risk factors in India.
Article in BMC health services research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02319330 (Preventing & Treating HIV Comorbidities in India), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Preventing & Treating HIV Comorbidities in India: Multi-tiered Strategy for Women
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Virtual care pathways for people living with HIV: A mixed-methods systematic review.HIV medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Targeted client communication via mobile devices for improving sexual and reproductive health.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2020Pooled it
- Exploring the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary effects of a nurse delivered mhealth intervention for women living with HIV in South India: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Archives of women's mental health · 2024Trial
- General HIV-Related Knowledge and Attitudes Among Nurses and Nursing Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis with Narrative Synthesis of Clinical Practices (2011-2026).Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Access to and Use of Mobile Phone by Postpartum, Married Women in Punjab, India: Secondary Analysis of mHealth Intervention Pilot Data.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- Mental health of women living with HIV and its impact on child development in Andhra Pradesh, India.Vulnerable children and youth studies · 2021Article
- Mobile Helpline and Reversible Contraception: Lessons From a Controlled Before-and-After Study in Rural India.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2019Article
- eHealth for Stigma Reduction Efforts Designed to Improve Engagement in Care for People Living with HIV.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2018Review
- Current Status and Future Directions of mHealth Interventions for Health System Strengthening in India: Systematic Review.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Review
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9 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundWomen living with HIV are vulnerable to a variety of psychosocial barriers that limit access and adherence to treatment. There is little evidence supporting interventions for improving access and treatment adherence among vulnerable groups of women in low- and middle-income countries. The M obile Phone-Based A pproach for H ealth I mprovement, L iteracy and A dherence (MAHILA) trial is assessing the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of a novel, theory-guided mobile health intervention delivered by nurses for enhancing self-care and treatment adherence among HIV-infected women in India. METHODS/
designWomen (n = 120) with HIV infection who screen positive for depressive symptoms and/or other psychosocial vulnerabilities are randomly assigned in equal numbers to one of two treatment arms: treatment as usual plus the mobile phone intervention (experimental group) or treatment as usual (control group). In addition to treatment as usual, the experimental group receives nurse-delivered self-care counselling via mobile phone at fixed intervals over 16 weeks. Outcome measures are collected at baseline and at 4, 12, 24 and 36 weeks post-baseline. Outcomes include antiretroviral treatment adherence, HIV-1 RNA, depressive symptoms, illness perceptions, internalized stigma and quality of life. DISCUSSION: The MAHILA trial will provide information about how a mobile health counselling intervention delivered by non specialist nurses may improve access to care and support the adherence and clinical outcomes of women with HIV infection living in low- and middle-income countries such as India.
trial registrationNCT02319330 (First received: July 30, 2014; Last verified: January 2016).
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