The positive affect, promoting Positive Engagement, and Adherence for Life (APPEAL) feasibility trial: Design and rationale.

Tracey E WilsonChanée MassiahRachel RadiganJack DeHovitzUsha S GovindarajuluSusan HolmanMichelle MelendezJameela YusuffTonya Taylor

Published in: Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association (2020)

The APPEAL program is innovative in that it focuses on promoting self-regulation of positive emotions, an understudied approach to promoting chronic disease self-management behaviors such as HIV medication adherence. Findings from the feasibility trial will gauge suitability of the APPEAL intervention and evaluation methods for subsequent testing in a confirmatory trial and will examine changes in positive affect, the primary mechanism of change targeted in the intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

Keyphrases

study protocol
randomized controlled trial
phase iii
clinical trial
phase ii
antiretroviral therapy
human immunodeficiency virus
hepatitis c virus
hiv positive
social media
type diabetes
hiv infected
hiv aids
open label
hiv testing
cancer therapy
metabolic syndrome
insulin resistance