Ann Williams, R.N.C., Ed. To describe the relationship between the home-based nursing intervention and biologic measures of clinical outcome, specifically, plasma quantitative HIV RNA levels and CD4 lymphocyte counts. To describe the relationship between the home-based nursing intervention and a subjective measure of clinical outcome, specifically, subjects' perception of health status.
All subjects receive standard nursing care.
In addition, the experimental group receives a home-based nursing intervention weekly for twelve weeks, every other week for twelve weeks, and thereafter monthly for one year. The home-based intervention is guided by the adult education principles of Paolo Freire.