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| General information | (1) How much have you discussed issues about alcohol use and HIV with your treatment providers in the past? |
| (2) What is the most important problem in your life right now? |
| (3) What do you value most? |
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| Alcohol history | (4) In the past month, about how many days did you drink alcohol? |
| (5) Did you drink to get drunk? Is this normal for you or does this happen often? |
| (6) When do you find yourself drinking the most? What moods, times of day, situations, or with what people? |
| (7) Do you think drinking gets in the way of you taking care of yourself? |
| (8) Has drinking ever interfered with your life responsibilities or gotten you into any legal trouble? Have you ever thought your drinking was a problem? |
| (9) Have you ever tried to cut back on or stop your drinking? If so, how? Did it work? What got in the way? |
| (10) Do you think your drinking experience is like other people in your life? |
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| Alcohol and HIV-related knowledge | (11) Do you know how alcohol interacts with your medications? |
| (12) Do you know how alcohol affects the progression of your illness? |
| (13) Would these questions (11 and 12) be good to address specifically during our intervention program? |
| (14) Have your health problems motivated you to cut back on or quit your drinking? |
| (15) Did you know that being HIV+ puts you at higher risk for poor health when you drink or use drugs and is unsafe about sex? Why do you think most people still do it? |
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| Substance abuse history (excluding alcohol) | (16) In the past month, how many days did you use any recreational drugs, including any pills that were not prescribed to you? If any, what kind? Is this normal for you? |
(17) Has using drugs ever gotten in the way of keeping up with your life responsibilities? Have you ever thought it was a problem?
(a) If yes, have you ever tried to cut back or stop your drug use? If so, how? How did it work? What helped/what got in the way?
(b) If yes, do you seem to drink more when you are using drugs? Or vice versa? |
| (18) Do you think recreational drug use is common for your friends/peers/others in the clinic? How much? |
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| Intervention-specific | (19) Have you ever participated in an HIV education program that covered alcohol and drug use too? Was it helpful? What did you like best or what did not you like? |
| (20) What helps you remember things best? Seeing or hearing information? Participating in activities? |
| (21) Do you feel OK in a group setting? |
| (22) How long should each session last? |
| (23) How many sessions should our program be? |
| (24) What time of the day should the sessions be? |
| (25) What would be a good way to make sure participants attend these sessions? |
| (26) What would get in the way of you coming to these sessions? |
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