Barriers and facilitators to accessing HIV rehabilitation
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Barriers and Facilitators to Participation in an Open-Access Physiotherapy-led Group Rehabilitation Intervention for Adults Living with HIV in London, United Kingdom (UK): A Qualitative Study
IRAS ID
274555
Contact name
D A Brown
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 11 months, 31 days
Research summary
Barriers and facilitators to accessing Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) rehabilitation:
In the United Kingdom (UK) HIV is now considered a long term health condition. With effective treatments, people living with HIV can live normal life expectancies and more people are growing older with HIV. This can result in more people living with HIV also living with other health conditions, health related challenges, and disability. Rehabilitation is about health and functioning in everyday life and is required if people experience, or are at risk of, disability. In London, UK, a twice-weekly Physiotherapy led group rehabilitation service for people living with HIV improves functioning, strength, flexibility, quality of life, and achieving personal goals. The service is open-access meaning people can attend, return, or restart depending on episodes of health, illness, or disability. Barriers and facilitators such as stigma, geographical limitations, gender, ethnicity and policy, can influence access to rehabilitation, however in the UK, there is no research on barriers and facilitators to rehabilitation among people living with HIV. Understanding what impacts participating in rehabilitation, can inform ways in which clinicians, HIV services, and policy makers can address functioning, disability and rehabilitation for people living with HIV in the UK. The primary aim of this study is to explore barriers and facilitators to participation in open-access rehabilitation for people living with HIV in the UK. The secondary aim is to explore the role and attributes of an open-access HIV rehabilitation service. This will be a focus group and interview qualitative study. People living with HIV who have accessed the HIV rehabilitation service will be eligible. This will be conducted at one NHS site in London, and the study will start data collection in June 2020, and last for 1 month.
REC name
London - Camberwell St Giles Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
20/LO/0628
Date of REC Opinion
30 Apr 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion