Abstract
In South Africa, lay HIV counsellors are at the forefront of many HIV-related behavioural interventions. However, they have limited formal counselling training and little ongoing in-service support, leading to considerable variability in approaches to counselling. We describe the use of Intervention Mapping to develop a motivational interviewing counselling training and support program, titled "Thusa-Thuso - helping you help", for lay HIV counsellors practising in primary health care clinics in South Africa. The program is contextually relevant, locally-produced, scalable, and is designed to impart sustained motivational interviewing counselling skills in lay HIV counsellors for improved antiretroviral therapy (ART) uptake in the universal-test-and-treat era.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1359105320962241 |
Pages (from-to) | 589-600 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 13 Oct 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Mar 2022 |
Keywords
- Antiretroviral therapy
- counselling
- HIV
- intervention mapping
- motivational interviewing
- treatment readiness
- treatment uptake
- LAY COUNSELORS
- ANTIRETROVIRAL TREATMENT
- ADHERENCE
- SERVICES
- CAPE
- CARE
- ADAPTATION
- PREVENTION
- FIDELITY
- DISTRICT