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Adaptation of the Friendship Bench Counseling Intervention to Improve Mental Health and HIV Care Engagement Outcomes Among People Living With HIV Who Inject Drugs in Vietnam
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Friendship Bench Delivered by Professional Counselor, Friendship Bench Delivered by Lay Counselor, and 1 other intervention for HIV Infections and 7 related conditions. Completed, enrolled 77 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
This project will adapt and pilot a feasible and effective problem-solving therapy designed for low-resource settings to address common mental disorders like depression and anxiety - the Friendship Bench- in a Vietnamese population of individuals living with HIV who also have opiate use disorder. The Friendship Bench approach has the potential to make an important contribution to address CMDs and reduce barriers to HIV treatment success among people living with HIV (PLWH) with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD), a critical population driving the HIV epidemic in Vietnam and many Southeast Asian countries. This proposal will generate critical evidence for designing a fully powered clinical trial to test the investigation team's adapted FB protocol in improving HIV, mental health, and drug use treatment outcomes for this vulnerable population.
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
Participants randomized to this arm will receive the Friendship Bench protocol delivered by a professional counselor.
Participants randomized to this arm will receive the Friendship Bench protocol delivered by a trained lay counselor.
Enhanced usual care (EUC) will include general training of the HIV providers and clinics about CMD identification and management, and feedback to the HIV provider of the status of their enrolled patient to allow follow-up per the clinic's standard care. Information will be collected in follow-up interviews to characterize the care that patients receive. These activities will occur in all three arms, but they are the only activities in the EUC arm.