Form 3 In-Depth Qualitative Interview Guide

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Nurse Delivered Sexual Risk Reduction Intervention for

HIV-Positive Women in the South

0920-XXXX

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In-depth Interview

Form Approved

OMB No. 0920-XXXX

Exp. Date__xx/xx/20xx

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SISTER-TO-SISTER POSITIVE HOPE

IN-DEPTH QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW GUIDE

Purpose: To conduct a small number of in-depth qualitative interviews with a subgroup of Sister-to-Sister Positive HOPE intervention trial respondents following their participation in the intervention and the follow-up assessment. The in-depth interview will assess participant's experiences with the intervention and elicit their recommendations for developing risk reduction intervention strategies for HIV + women, and to better understand the factors that place women at risk for HIV.

General Topics: Issues regarding becoming infected, personal risk reduction efforts and experiences with protection methods, issues surrounding the experience of stigma and disclosure of HIV status and feedback on their experience with the Sister-to-Sister Positive HOPE intervention.

Target Questions:

1. What do you think places women at risk for catching HIV/Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)?

2. What do you think put you at risk for getting HIV?

Probes: What part of this, if anything, do you think is due to your being a woman? To your being (Black, Latina, fill in other appropriate race/ethnicity)? To where you live?

3. What were your thoughts when you learned you had HIV?

4. What has it been like for you being HIV-positive?

Probe for stigma, disclosure experiences, (i.e., What has it been like relating to other people, when people [partner, relatives, friends, etc.] learn you are HIV-positive)?

5. What do you think you need to do to protect yourself now? What has been most difficult in protecting yourself from STIs or potentially another strain of HIV?

6. Looking over the time since you joined Sister-to-Sister Positive HOPE, what do you remember the most about the program?

Probe: What was helpful? What was not helpful? If you had to change anything about the program, what would you change to make it better?

7. What recommendations/suggestions do you have for prevention efforts/classes/etc. offered to/for HIV-positive women?