Overview
The goal of PROJECT SUSTAIN is to optimize Healthy Choices to advance an adaptive and scalable intervention designed to improve self-management of alcohol and HIV in Young People with HIV (YPWH) while understanding the context for state-wide implementation and sustainment in a Hybrid Experimental Design (HED). SUSTAIN utilizes mHealth and telehealth intervention delivery of Healthy Choices (HC), combined with text messaging between sessions, to increase the likelihood of daily medication adherence (primary outcome), and increase the likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3 (secondary outcome).
Description
Primary aim: To test whether, on average, delivering (vs. not delivering) a text messaged prompt focused on medication adherence or stress increases the likelihood of medication adherence by the end of the current day.
Secondary aim: To test whether offering (vs. not offering) a Healthy Choices telehealth coaching session at the end of week 2 (day 14) increases the likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3.
Implementation Aim: Assess barriers and facilitators to the implementation and sustainment of intervention sequences for state-wide scale up using mixed methods (EPIS qualitative interviews, youth satisfaction and dose received, fidelity for telehealth, paradata for mHealth, and cost-effectiveness analysis).
Cross-project Moderator Aim: Explore age, biological sex and gender, ethnicity, other substance use, and mental health as moderators of intervention effects.
Primary hypothesis to be tested: Delivering (vs. not delivering) a text messaged prompt will lead to greater likelihood of medication adherence by the end of the current day.
Secondary hypothesis to be tested: Offering a Healthy Choices telehealth coaching at the end of week 2 will lead to greater likelihood of achieving viral suppression and meeting criteria for no risky alcohol use at month 3 (post-intervention) compared to not offering a Healthy Choices telehealth coaching session at the end of week 2.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Be 18 years and 0 months to 29 years and 11 months.
- Currently reside in Florida
- History of alcohol use
- Are not pregnant nor trying to conceive within the study's timeline
- Are able to read and understand English
- Have internet access via smartphone, tablet or computer
- Are willing to provide informed consent.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Adults unable to consent
- Prisoners
- Those using long-acting injectables as HIV medication regimen