The purpose of this study is to evaluate why the majority of HIV infected women in the Harris County Health District system who are pregnant do not come to clinic for their HIV disease after they have a baby through questionaires administered prepartum and questionaires and structured interviews postpartum. The study will ask subjects questions about HIV, drug use, depression and social problems.
This study is evaluating information pre and postpartum to assess what are barriers to patients coming into care for HIV after they have a baby. We will try to evaluate recurrent themes in questionaires and interviews to try and identify the barriers to care.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
38
We will do questionaires on pregnant women before they have their baby and after they have their baby. We will do structured interviews after they have their baby
Harris County Hospital District Clinics-Thomas Street Clinic, Northwest Clinic
Houston, Texas, United States
Harris County Hospital District Clinics-LBJ hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
evaluate results from qualitative interviews
we will ask and record responses and enter into an NIVIVO program to evaluate for emergent themes
Time frame: women seen after they have their baby
evaluate results from questionaires
we will evaluate responses from questionaires There will be 8 areas that there are questionnaires about. These include basic information about yourself, about stress, about your support system, about your sense of control, about tobacco use, about for alcohol/drug use, about taking your HIV medications, and about depression.
Time frame: before they have a baby and after they have a baby
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