Hope and HIV Medication Adherence

Running Head : HOPE AND HIV MEDICATION ADHERENCE

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The HIV pandemic continues to pose serious global threats . Even though anti- HIV medications are now widely available , strict adherence to the prescribed regimen is largely unsatisfactory . Hope could improve adherence to these medications . The purpose of this two-group post-test only randomized correlation study is to determine whether hope is related to HIV medication adherence . We hypothesize that there is a relationship between hope and adherence to HIV medication . The research will take place at the

Veteran Administration Medical Center 's HIV Clinic , located in North East United States and use will be made of the stratified sampling technique to select the study subjects

Subjects for this study will be HIV positive adults who have known their status for at least 6 months and are currently on anti-retroviral medications . The subjects will also be able to speak , read , and understand English . Instruments to be used in this study will include the Herth Hope Index (HHI ) and the Brief Medication Questionnaire (BMQ HHI will be used to determine the levels of hope among the study subjects while the BMQ will be used to assess the study subjects adherence to medication . Validity and reliability will be assessed through the Cronbach 's alpha test and comparison of baseline and t (60 CD4 counts with the survey outcomes . Tests of significance will be performed using the independent t-test

CHAPTER ONE : INTRODUCTION

Overview of the first chapter

This chapter is divided into ten...