Effects of a Phone Call Intervention to Promote Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy and Quality of Life of HIV/AIDS Patients in Baoshan, China: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Table 2

Details of the biweekly phone calls made over the 12-week study period.

	Treatment-naive patients			Treatment-experienced patients
Phone call appointment	No. of patients requiring a phone; call 𝑛=52	No. of successful calls; 𝑛 (%)	Call time (min); (mean ± SD)	No. of patients requiring a phone; call 𝑛=46	No. of successful calls; 𝑛 (%)	Call time (min); (mean ± SD)
Day 15	3	2 (66.0)	4.7 ± 1.2	46	32 (69.6)	2.5 ± 2.2
Month 1	4	3 (75.0)	6.0 ± 0.0	46	30 (65.2)	2.3 ± 2.2
Month 1.5	51	46 (90.2)	3.0 ± 1.8	46	28 (60.9)	2.2 ± 1.2
Month 2	6	2 (33.3)	1.0 ± 1.4	46	29 (63.4)	2.4 ± 2.1
Month 2.5	51	44 (86.2)	3.0 ± 1.8	46	29 (63.4)	3.1 ± 1.9
Month 3	5	1 (20.0)	3.0 ± 0.0	6	6 (100.0)	0.6 ± 1.3
Overall	120	98 (81.7)	2.9 ± 1.9	236	154 (65.3)	2.4 ± 2.0