Deborah L. Jones

TL;DR: Exposure to medication counselling and behavioural interventions increase adherence to combination antiretroviral medication therapy and prophylactic treatment among non-adherent men living with HIV, with associated reductions in negative clinical outcomes.

TL;DR: Results showed that poor management of a simulated HIV medication regimen among African Americans and women was mediated by lower numeracy, showing that poor medication self-management may be a significant root cause for health disparities in African Americans with HIV/AIDS.

TL;DR: It is suggested that patients must rely on higher order cognitive skills to successfully navigate medication self-management, and that efforts to simplify health information that merely lowers readability are likely to meet with limited success.

TL;DR: Changes in self-efficacy over time would be related to changes in disease progression markers (CD4, viral load) in a sample of women with AIDS and increases in cognitive behavioral skills self- efficacy were significantly related to decreases in viral load.

TL;DR: Violence was found to be related to poor coping styles for both men and women and underlines the importance of recognizing IPV as a barrier to medication adherence.