Many factors being influential in the transition are described in literature, as for example, disorder treatment, previous adherence and experience, the peer groups attitudes, psychological factors, social demographics, regional characteristics, current services organization, and experience of it or the relationship to parents or partner [ 3, 15].
Outcome measures were: attending the clinic on or before the date of a scheduled appointment, attending within 3 days of a scheduled appointment, reporting perfect adherence, and experiencing a gap in medication supply of more than 14 days.
The FGD with health centre staff involved five nurses and two HIV counsellors.> The interviews and FGDs were conducted using topic guides that explored areas such as social support and ways of coping with HIV and ART, issues surrounding treatment adherence, and experiences at the health care centre.
In the future we will likely work with other clinical services in a similar way to our pharmacy partners today, but todays all focus is on adherence and user experience," he adds.
We also studied the patients' viral outcome, self reported adherence and subjective experience of adverse effects and the relationship between these variables and the development in HRQL.
Furthermore, we wanted to investigate the relation between developments in HRQL and viral response, self-reported adherence and subjective experience of adverse effects in patients with PI-ART.
At the 2-year follow-up measurement (see below), items were added to measure adherence and subjective experience of adverse effects.
Two hierarchical multiple regression analyses were performed to investigate whether the change in physical and emotional HRQL composite scores could be predicted by initial CD4 count, viral response, adherence and subjective experience of adverse effects (Table 4).
The pre PI-ART PCS and ECS, respectively, were entered in the first step, while the three variables viral response, adherence and subjective experience of adverse effects were entered in the second step together with the initial CD4 value.
The question about reasons for missing doses was asked six weeks after starting ART, while the positive association was found between treatment adherence and the experience of food insufficiency in the previous 30 days from the baseline interview date.
PCSPhysical HRQL composite score; ECSEmotional HRQL composite score A set of hierarchical multiple linear regression analyses [ 31] were performed to investigate whether the initial CD4 value, viral response, adherence and subjective experience of adverse effects predicted the change in HRQL.
