Exploring the acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility and satisfaction of an implementation strategy for out-of-HOspital administration of the Long-Acting combination of cabotegravir and rilpivirine as an optional therapy for HIV in Spain (the HOLA study)-a hybrid implementation-effectiveness, phase IV, double-arm, open-label, multicentric study: study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The HOLA study is a 12-month randomised, hybrid implementation-effectiveness, phase IV, double-arm, open-label, multicentric study including virologically suppressed people living with HIV (PWH). HOLA, which started in September 2023, evaluates acceptability, appropriateness, feasibility and satisfaction of out-of-hospital administration of cabotegravir and rilpivirine long-acting (CAB+RPV LA).

Methods

A total of 110 PWH who are already under treatment with CAB+RPV LA or switch their antiretroviral therapy to CAB+RPV LA will be recruited from two main hospitals in Barcelona (Germans Trias I Pujol and Vall d'Hebrón) and Costa del Sol Hospital, in Marbella. The patients will be randomised 1:1 into a hospital group (administration of CAB+RPV LA in the hospital) and

SUBMITTER: Negredo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11987114 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature