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Assessing mobile health feasibility and acceptability among HIV-infected cocaine users and their healthcare providers: guidance for implementing an intervention.
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- Web-Based Cognitive Training to Improve Working Memory in Persons with Co-Occurring HIV Infection and Cocaine Use Disorder: Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial.AIDS and behavior · 2021Trial
- Outpatients' Readiness for Engagement in Health Information Technology: Implications for Patient Education in University Hospitals of Southern Iran.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Digital Interventions for Stimulant Use Among People Living with HIV: A Narrative Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2025Review
- Comprehensive Communication for a Syndemic Approach to HIV Care: A Framework for Enhancing Health Communication Messages for People Living with HIV.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
- Experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS in selected hospitals in Imo state, Nigeria, regarding the usability and satisfaction of reminders using M-health features: a qualitative study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Text Messages Exchanged Between Individuals With Opioid Use Disorder and Their mHealth e-Coaches: Content Analysis Study.JMIR human factors · 2023Article
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- Using mobile health technologies to test the association of cocaine use with sexual desire and risky sexual behaviors among people with and without HIV who use illicit stimulants.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2021Article
- Feasibility of a mHealth survey application for incarcerated and postrelease people living with HIV in a low-resource setting.Research in nursing & health · 2021Article
- Adapting an m-Health Intervention for Spanish-Speaking Latinx People Living with HIV in the Nonurban Southern United States.Telemedicine reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundMobile health (mHealth) can provide innovative, cost-effective strategies to improve medication adherence and optimize HIV treatment outcomes. Very little, however, is known about the acceptability and feasibility of mHealth among people with HIV (PWH) who use drugs. Our study objective was to assess feasibility, acceptability, and barriers and facilitators of implementing an mHealth intervention among PWH who are cocaine users, a group for whom no pharmacological treatment to reduce cocaine use is available.
methodsFive focus groups (FGs) (N=20) were conducted with PWH who self-reported cocaine use in the past 30 days, with 3 groups (N=8) of healthcare providers. Topics included previous experience with smartphones; barriers and facilitators of mobile technology for health purposes; and attitudes toward receiving types of feedback about adherence.
resultsPatients preferred text reminders over phone calls for reasons of privacy, accessibility and economizing phone minutes. Direct communication via text messages and phone calls was considered more appropriate for social workers and case managers, who have greater frequency of communication and deeper relationships with patients, and less so for doctors, who see patients less regularly than community health workers. Patients seem particular about who has what information, and overall, they seem to prefer that their medical information, especially HIV-related, stay within the confines of patient-provider relationships.
conclusionsHIV still provokes stigma and makes health information particularly sensitive for both providers and patients. The rise of mobile technology and related applications such as mHealth, means that new norms have to be established for its use. Participants' suggestions and feedback informed the design of a subsequent mHealth pilot randomized control trial to improve medication adherence.
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