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 3

Follow-up rate, self-reported adherence to treatment, CD4, and weight change between intervention and control groups over time.

	Treatment-naive patients					Treatment-experienced patients
	Group					Group
					𝑃 value					𝑃 value
	𝑛	Intervention	𝑛	Control		𝑛	Intervention	𝑛	Control
Follow-up rate (%)
Visit 1	49	94.2	48	94.1	0.17	42	91.3	46	97.9	0.82
Visit 2	48	92.3	47	92.2	0.20		—	—
Visit 3	48	92.3	49	94.2	0.10		—	—
Visit 4	47	90.3	43	84.3	0.08	44	95.7	44	93.6	0.66
Self-reported adherence, mean (SD)
Baseline	52	—	51	—		46	99.2 (2.3)	47	99.1 (2.5)	0.83
Day 15	40	98.9 (3.9)	36	97.3 (11.2)	0.98		—		—
Month 1	29	98.7 (5.3)	19	94.7 (22.5)	0.19		—		—
Month 2	32	99.8 (0.8)	33	97.0 (17.2)	0.98		—		—
Month 3	30	99.7 (1.6)	31	96.5 (17.8)	0.09	40	99.6 (1.0)	42	99.5 (2.0)	0.37
CD4 (cell count/mm^3) mean (SD)
Baseline	49	191 (99.6)	47	216 (98.2)	0.23	39	286 (129.7)	40	348 (195.6)	0.10
Month 3	40	308 (124.3)	38	298 (121.9)	0.82	36	324 (125.0)	27	356 (197.5)	0.47
Pre- to postchange	40	111 (97.3)	38	91.9 (87.8)	0.35	36	32.1 (79.0)	27	12.3 (80.3)	0.34
Weight (kg) mean (SD)
Baseline	49	54.1 (8.6)	47	56.7 (9.6)	0.15	46	57.3 (9.1)	47	53.4 (7.8)	0.02
Month 3	46	54.2 (9.3)	43	57.3 (9.4)	0.12	39	57.2 (9.4)	40	53.3 (8.0)	0.05
Pre- to postchange	46	0.9 (3.0)	43	0.6 (2.3)	0.61	39	0.2 (2.1)	40	0.04 (1.8)	0.77