Intervention fidelity and factors affecting the process of implementing a mobile phone text messaging intervention among adolescents living with HIV: a convergent mixed-methods study in southern Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the intervention fidelity and explore contextual factors affecting the process of implementing a mobile phone text messaging intervention in improving adherence to and retention in care among adolescents living with HIV, their families and their healthcare providers in southern Ethiopia.

Design

A convergent mixed-methods design guided by the process evaluation theoretical framework and the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance framework was used alongside a randomised controlled trial to examine the fidelity and explore the experiences of participants in the intervention.

Setting

Six hospitals and five health centres provide HIV treatment and care to adolescents in five zones in southern Ethiopia.

Participants

Adoles

SUBMITTER: Tunje A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11227767 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature