Cynthia R. Pearson

TL;DR: The nurse-delivered adherence intervention led to some improvement in self-reported and EDM-assessed adherence but not the biological outcomes, which merits further investigation as a culturally viable means of promoting adherence in China.

TL;DR: In this qualitative study, 29 HIV-positive, Chinese patients reported highly favorable impressions of their healthcare providers, who were seen as providing important medical-related, financial, and emotional support.

TL;DR: This qualitative interview study with 29 persons receiving HIV care at Beijing's Ditan Hospital identified barriers to and facilitators of medication adherence and suggests that successful interventions must minimize stigma as it negatively affects all components of the model for adherence.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that adolescents influence retaliation in their friends by contributing to emotion regulation, advising responses to bullying, and by serving as mediators or proxy retaliators, and that the help they give friends is posited to engender powerful feelings of pride and other identity-relevant feelings that encourage future assistance, and elicit reciprocal feelings of obligation and influence.

TL;DR: Key components of the intervention's success included using peers who were well accepted by clinic staff, adequate training and retention of peers, adapting daily visit requirements to participants' work schedules and physical conditions, and reimbursing costs of transportation.