Randomized controlled trial of a positive affect intervention for people newly diagnosed with HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether IRISS (Intervention for those Recently Informed of their Seropositive Status), a positive affect skills intervention, improved positive emotion, psychological health, physical health, and health behaviors in people newly diagnosed with HIV.

Method

One-hundred and fifty-nine participants who had received an HIV diagnosis in the past 3 months were randomized to a 5-session, in-person, individually delivered positive affect skills intervention or an attention-matched control condition.

Results

For the primary outcome of past-day positive affect, the group difference in change from baseline over time did not reach statistical significance (p = .12, d = .30). Planned secondary analyses within assessm

SUBMITTER: Moskowitz JT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5398944 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature