Optimizing Resilience and Coping in HIV Via Internet Delivery (ORCHID)
HIV Disease, Depression, Affect
About this trial
This is an interventional supportive care trial for HIV Disease
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- HIV +
- 18 or older
- Score of CES-D depression scale >10
- Daily internet access
- Smart phone ownership
Exclusion Criteria:
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Sites / Locations
- University of California, San Francisco
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Intervention
Emotion reporting and EMA notification
Participants receive a five week intervention providing the following activities: EMA: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) of Emotion throughout the day. Intervention: Positive Events: Participants identify a positive event and then describe how they capitalized on this event. Gratitude: Participants identify one more more things that make them feel grateful. Mindfulness: Participants participate in a 30 minute guided mindfulness/meditation practice. Positive Reappraisal: Participants identify how they reappraised a negative event making it into a positive event. Personal Strengths: Participants identify one more more personal strengths. Attainable goals: Participants identify a short-term attainable goal. Participants will outline what they did that day to work toward attaining their week's goal. Acts of Kindness: Participants will identify one more more acts of kindness that they engaged in and how it made them feel.
Participants report emotions and receive EMA (ecological momentary assessment) text messages on the same regular basis as intervention participants, but receive no interventions. EMA detail: Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) of Emotion throughout the day. We will assess current emotions via email or text message 4 times per day, 2 days per week (one randomly selected week/work day and one randomly selected weekend/non-work day) during the 8 week study period, for a total of 16 days of EMA reporting. Participants will be asked to rate how much they are currently feeling several positive and negative emotions that have been associated with mortality and health: happy, excited, content, appreciative, sad, worried, and fearful.