NCT03762187

A Brief Affirmation Intervention on HIV-related Distress and Positive Living in Lesotho

Completed NA Last updated 7 December 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Self-affirmation in Self-affirmation Plus Positive Living Counseling in 389 participants. Completed in 31 January 2015.

Timeline

1 September 2014

Primary endpoint
31 January 2015

31 January 2015

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University of California, Santa Barbara
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	factorial
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	389
Start date	1 September 2014
Primary completion	31 January 2015
Estimated completion	31 January 2015

Drugs / interventions tested

• Self-affirmation
• Positive living counseling

Conditions studied

• Self-affirmation Plus Positive Living Counseling — all drugs for Self-affirmation Plus Positive Living Counseling →
• Counseling — all drugs for Counseling →

Sponsor

University of California, Santa Barbara

Who can join

Eligibility, any sex, with Self-affirmation Plus Positive Living Counseling or Counseling. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

This study is interested in the stress associated with being HIV positive and looking at ways to reduce that stress. Individuals who are HIV positive face a number of nontrivial threats and stressors: the burden of illness, loss of work, stigmatization, and the chance of death. The study investigates the use of self-affirmation to reduce some of these threats and stressors. Self-affirmation may helping people to cope with these threats and stressors by reminding individuals of other valued aspects of themselves, thus reducing the impact, both psychologically and physiologically, of these threats. Experimentally induced affirmations in which individuals are asked to write about values that are important to the self have been shown to reduce physiological stress among healthy student populations (Sherman, Bunyan, Creswell, \& Jaremka, 2009).

This research will be conducted in collaboration with the global health organizations, PSI who is already providing counseling to those living with HIV on how to reduce the spread of HIV and how to live a healthy life with HIV. These counseling sessions take place at local clinics and hospitals while individuals are waiting to be seen for treatment and are completely voluntary.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.