title: Information and Communication Technology to Link Criminal Justice Reentrants to HIV Care in the Community.
abstract: The United States has the world's highest prison population, and an estimated one in seven HIV-positive persons in the USA passes through a correctional facility annually. Given this, it is critical to develop innovative and effective approaches to support HIV treatment and retention in care among HIV-positive individuals involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system. Information and communication technologies (ICTs), including mobile health (mHealth) interventions, may offer one component of a successful strategy for linkage/retention in care. We describe CARE+ Corrections, a randomized controlled trial (RCT) study now underway in Washington, that will evaluate the combined effect of computerized motivational interview counseling and postrelease short message service (SMS) text message reminders to increase antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence and linkage and retention in care among HIV-infected persons involved in the criminal justice system. In this report, we describe the development of this ICT/mHealth intervention, outline the study procedures used to evaluate this intervention, and summarize the implications for the mHealth knowledge base.
authors: College of Nursing, New York University, New York, NY 10003, USA.
authors: Ann
authors: A
authors: Kurth
authors: Irene
authors: I
authors: Kuo
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Peterson
authors: Nkiru
authors: N
authors: Azikiwe
authors: Lauri
authors: L
authors: Bazerman
authors: Alice
authors: A
authors: Cates
authors: Curt G
authors: CG
authors: Beckwith
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