April L. Buscher|Christine Hartman|Michael A. Kallen|Thomas P. Giordano
Validity of Self-Report Measures in Assessing Antiretroviral Adherence of Newly Diagnosed, HAART-Naïve, HIV Patients
Baylor College of Medicine|Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center|Health Services Research & Development|Baylor College of Medicine|Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center|Health Services Research & Development|The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center|Baylor College of Medicine|Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center|Health Services Research & Development
abstractabstractpurpose compare performance selfreport instruments assessing adherence antiretroviral therapy art patients starting art first time predominately hispanic populationmethods 184 patients prospective observational cohort study newly diagnosed minority patients low socioeconomic status 54 given medication event monitoring system mems caps boosted protease inhibitor pi nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor nnrti completed 4week recall visual analogue scale vas adult aids clinical trial group aactg 4day recall instrument 1month recall qualitative singleitem measure every 3 months 18 months english spanish electronic pharmacy records recorded refill dates spearman correlation coefficients calculated compare selfreport measures mems data pharmacy dataresults 46 patients mems data mean adherence 847 sd 356 mems 845 sd 151 pharmacy 954 sd 119 vas 958 sd 172 aactg 876 sd 282 qualitative single item correlation coefficient cc vas mems 037 p 01 pharmacy 034 p 01 cc aactg mems 032 p 01 pharmacy 028 p 01 qualitative single item cc mems 024 p 01 pharmacy 032 p 01 spanishspeaking patients vas adherence cc 040 p 01 memsconclusions vas aactg qualitative singleitem measures correlated significantly mems pharmacy data data support selfadministration vas even spanish speakerskeywords adherencecohort studyhivselfreportspanish