An acceptance-based, intersectional stigma coping intervention for people with HIV who inject drugs-a randomized clinical trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

People with HIV who inject drugs experience intersecting forms of stigma that adversely impact care access. This RCT aimed to evaluate effects of a behavioral intersectional stigma coping intervention on stigma and care utilization.

Methods

We recruited 100 participants with HIV and past-30-day injection drug use at a non-governmental harm reduction organization in St. Petersburg, Russia, and randomized them 1:2 to receive usual services only or an additional intervention of three weekly 2-h group sessions. Primary outcomes were change in HIV and substance use stigma scores at one month after randomization. Secondary outcomes were initiation of antiretroviral treatment (ART), substance use care utilization, and changes in frequency of past-30-days drug injection a

SUBMITTER: Luoma JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10173263 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature