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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS. 2015 Sep 24;29(15):1975–1986. doi: 10.1097/QAD.0000000000000797

Table 3.

Crude and corrected differences in HIV-related and mental health outcomes and healthcare utilization between arms at 6 months (primary time-point).

Intervention Usual care Adjusted for design** Adjusted for design** and missing data***



Outcome n Mean/% n Mean/% Difference 95% CI P value Difference 95% CI P value
HIV-related outcomes
Percentage adherence, pill count 86 89.2 95 87.6 1.2 (−4.0, 6.5) 0.64 1.4 (−3.9, 6.7) 0.61
Percentage adherence, self-report 92 92.7 98 93.9 −0.8 (−4.6, 3.1) 0.69 −1.3 (−5.8, 3.3) 0.59
Number of HIV symptoms (range: 0-12) 92 4.5 98 4.7 −0.3 (−1.0, 0.5) 0.51 −0.2 (−0.9, 0.4) 0.48
Viral load, log-10 79 1.6 98 1.9 −.2 (−0.5, 0.0) 0.06 −0.2 (−0.6, 0.2) 0.28
Viral load < 50 copies/ml (%) 79 86.1 98 76.5 9.8 (−0.9, 20.5) 0.07 9.8 (−0.9, 20.5) 0.07
Percentage HIV appointment adherence* 146 81.3 151 80.1 0.8 (−4.6, 6.2) 0.77 1.2 (−2.8, 5.3) 0.56
Physical health-related quality of life (range: 0-100) 92 42.8 98 43.7 −1.1 (−4.4, 2.3) 0.52 −1.0 (−5.0, 3.0) 0.64
Mental health-related outcomes
Depressive severity (range: 0-50) 92 13.5 98 17.2 −3.6 (−5.9, −1.2) 0.00 −3.7 (−5.6, −1.7) 0.00
Depression remission (%) 92 20.7 98 17.3 0.3 (−12.1, 12.7) 0.97 12.8 (1.2, 24.3) 0.03
Any active suicidality (%) 92 8.7 98 21.4 −12.7 (−23.3, −2.1) 0.02 −18.1 (−29.9, −6.4) 0.00
Mental health-related quality of life (range: 0-100) 92 41.6 98 37.6 3.7 (0.3, 7.1) 0.04 3.8 (−0.1, 7.8) 0.06
Depression-free days* 143 160 137 136 25 (1, 49) 0.04 29 (1, 57) 0.04
Healthcare utilization
Any emergency department visit (%) 92 18.5 96 20.8 −5.3 (−25.2, 14.7) 0.60 0.6 (−16.0, 17.3) 0.94
Any hospitalization (%) 92 7.6 96 4.2 3.4 (−2.4, 9.3) 0.25 5.8 (−0.9, 12.4) 0.09
*

Over 12 months of study enrollment

**

Via ordinary least squares regression (continuous outcomes) or generalized linear model with identity link and binomial error distribution (binary outcomes), with fixed effects for site and depression treatment experience level and clustered by provider

***

Via linear mixed model (continuous outcomes) or generalized linear model with identity link, binomial error distribution, and inverse probability of observation weighting (binary outcomes), with fixed effects for site and depression treatment experience level and clustered by provider.