How patient navigators view the use of financial incentives to influence study involvement, substance use, and HIV treatment.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

While patient navigation has been shown to be an effective approach for linking persons to HIV care, and contingency management is effective at improving substance use-related outcomes, Project HOPE combined these two interventions in a novel way to engage HIV-positive patients with HIV and substance use treatment. The aims of this paper are to examine patient navigator views regarding how contingency management interacted with and affected their navigation process.

Design

Semi-structured qualitative interviews.

Participants

22 patient navigators from the original 10 Project HOPE study sites.

Measurements

Individual, semi-structured interviews lasting approximately 60 min addressed the patient navigator's professional background, description

SUBMITTER: Mitchell SG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6404543 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature