Behavioral measures of product use didn't measure up in VOICE HIV prevention trial
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 08:31
in Psychology & Sociology
A new analysis from the NIH-funded Microbicide Trials Network confirms what they and others had already assumed: The behavioral measures used for assessing adherence in the VOICE study -- an HIV prevention trial involving more than 5,000 women in sub-Saharan Africa -- did not provide accurate information about women's use and nonuse of the products being tested. In fact, these tools were not much better than chance at being able to predict adherence to product use.