Exploring feasibility and acceptability of an integrated urban gardens and peer nutritional counselling intervention for people with HIV in the Dominican Republic.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Food security interventions with people living with HIV (PLHIV) are needed to improve HIV outcomes. This process evaluation of a pilot intervention involving urban gardening and peer nutritional counselling with PLHIV assesses feasibility, acceptability and implementation challenges to inform scale-up.

Design

Mixed methods were used, including quantitative data on intervention participation and feasibility and acceptability among participants (n 45) and qualitative data from a purposive sample of participants (n 21). Audio-recorded interviews were transcribed and coded using a codebook developed iteratively.

Setting

An HIV clinic in the northwest-central part of the Dominican Republic.

Results

The intervention was feasible for most parti

SUBMITTER: Celeste-Villalvir A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755388 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature