A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya

Mobile technologies represent potentially novel and scalable intervention delivery platforms for adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) in low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a prospective, mixed methods pilot study to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of the WhatsApp(®) platform to...

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Autores principales: Chory, Ashley, Callen, Grant, Nyandiko, Winstone, Njoroge, Tabitha, Ashimosi, Celestine, Aluoch, Josephine, Scanlon, Michael, McAteer, Carole, Apondi, Edith, Vreeman, Rachel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34292429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03376-9
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author Chory, Ashley
Callen, Grant
Nyandiko, Winstone
Njoroge, Tabitha
Ashimosi, Celestine
Aluoch, Josephine
Scanlon, Michael
McAteer, Carole
Apondi, Edith
Vreeman, Rachel
author_facet Chory, Ashley
Callen, Grant
Nyandiko, Winstone
Njoroge, Tabitha
Ashimosi, Celestine
Aluoch, Josephine
Scanlon, Michael
McAteer, Carole
Apondi, Edith
Vreeman, Rachel
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description Mobile technologies represent potentially novel and scalable intervention delivery platforms for adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) in low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a prospective, mixed methods pilot study to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of the WhatsApp(®) platform to deliver individual counseling services and facilitate peer support for ALWH in western Kenya. Thirty ALWH (17 female, mean age 15.4) on ART, engaged in HIV care and aware of their status, were enrolled. After 6 months, participants described their experiences with the intervention. Treatment adherence, stigma, and mental and behavioral health were assessed prospectively. Participants reported overall positive experiences and indicated that the platform encouraged peer network development. They endorsed potential benefits for treatment adherence, stigma reduction, and mental and behavioral health. All participants supported intervention expansion. In western Kenya, WhatsApp(®) was an acceptable and feasible platform for mobile counseling and peer support for ALWH.
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spelling pubmed-82954542021-07-22 A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya Chory, Ashley Callen, Grant Nyandiko, Winstone Njoroge, Tabitha Ashimosi, Celestine Aluoch, Josephine Scanlon, Michael McAteer, Carole Apondi, Edith Vreeman, Rachel AIDS Behav Original Paper Mobile technologies represent potentially novel and scalable intervention delivery platforms for adolescents living with HIV (ALWH) in low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a prospective, mixed methods pilot study to evaluate the acceptability and feasibility of the WhatsApp(®) platform to deliver individual counseling services and facilitate peer support for ALWH in western Kenya. Thirty ALWH (17 female, mean age 15.4) on ART, engaged in HIV care and aware of their status, were enrolled. After 6 months, participants described their experiences with the intervention. Treatment adherence, stigma, and mental and behavioral health were assessed prospectively. Participants reported overall positive experiences and indicated that the platform encouraged peer network development. They endorsed potential benefits for treatment adherence, stigma reduction, and mental and behavioral health. All participants supported intervention expansion. In western Kenya, WhatsApp(®) was an acceptable and feasible platform for mobile counseling and peer support for ALWH. Springer US 2021-07-22 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8295454/ /pubmed/34292429 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03376-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Chory, Ashley
Callen, Grant
Nyandiko, Winstone
Njoroge, Tabitha
Ashimosi, Celestine
Aluoch, Josephine
Scanlon, Michael
McAteer, Carole
Apondi, Edith
Vreeman, Rachel
A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya
title A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya
title_full A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya
title_fullStr A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya
title_full_unstemmed A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya
title_short A Pilot Study of a Mobile Intervention to Support Mental Health and Adherence Among Adolescents Living with HIV in Western Kenya
title_sort pilot study of a mobile intervention to support mental health and adherence among adolescents living with hiv in western kenya
topic Original Paper
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295454/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34292429
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03376-9
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