Adherence to antiretroviral drug therapy in adult patients who are HIV-positive in Northwest Ethiopia: a study protocol
Identifieur interne : 000F38 ( Pmc/Corpus ); précédent : 000F37; suivant : 000F39Adherence to antiretroviral drug therapy in adult patients who are HIV-positive in Northwest Ethiopia: a study protocol
Auteurs : Woldesellassie M. Bezabhe ; Gregory M. Peterson ; Luke Bereznicki ; Leanne Chalmers ; Peter GeeSource :
- BMJ Open [ 2044-6055 ] ; 2013.
Abstract
Achievement of optimal medication adherence and management of antiretroviral toxicity pose great challenges among Ethiopian patients with HIV/AIDS. There is currently a lack of long-term follow-up studies that identify the barriers to, and facilitators of, adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Ethiopian setting. Therefore, we aim to investigate the level of adherence to ART and a wide range of potential influencing factors, including adverse drug reactions occurring with ART.
We are conducting a 1-year prospective cohort study involving adult patients with HIV/AIDS starting on ART between December 2012 and March 2013. Data are being collected on patients’ appointment dates in the ART clinics. Adherence to ART is being measured using pill count, medication possession ratio and patient's self-report. The primary outcome of the study will be the proportion of patients who are adherent to their ART regimen at 3, 6 and 12 months using pill count. Taking 95% or more of the dispensed ART regimen using pill count at given points of time will be considered the optimal level of adherence in this study. Data will be analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical procedures.
Ethics approval was obtained from the Tasmania Health and Medical Human Research Ethics Committee and Bahir-Dar University's Ethics Committee. The results of the study will be reported in peer-reviewed scientific journals, conferences and seminar presentations.
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DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003559
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There is currently a lack of long-term follow-up studies that identify the barriers to, and facilitators of, adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Ethiopian setting. Therefore, we aim to investigate the level of adherence to ART and a wide range of potential influencing factors, including adverse drug reactions occurring with ART.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods and analysis</title><p>We are conducting a 1-year prospective cohort study involving adult patients with HIV/AIDS starting on ART between December 2012 and March 2013. Data are being collected on patients’ appointment dates in the ART clinics. Adherence to ART is being measured using pill count, medication possession ratio and patient's self-report. The primary outcome of the study will be the proportion of patients who are adherent to their ART regimen at 3, 6 and 12 months using pill count. Taking 95% or more of the dispensed ART regimen using pill count at given points of time will be considered the optimal level of adherence in this study. Data will be analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical procedures.</p></sec><sec><title>Ethics and dissemination</title><p>Ethics approval was obtained from the Tasmania Health and Medical Human Research Ethics Committee and Bahir-Dar University's Ethics Committee. 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<front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">BMJ Open</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="iso-abbrev">BMJ Open</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="hwp">bmjopen</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">bmjopen</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>BMJ Open</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2044-6055</issn><publisher><publisher-name>BMJ Publishing Group</publisher-name><publisher-loc>BMA House, Tavistock Square, London, WC1H 9JR</publisher-loc></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="pmid">24176794</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="pmc">3816234</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">bmjopen-2013-003559</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003559</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>HIV/AIDS</subject><subj-group><subject>Protocol</subject></subj-group></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="hwp-journal-coll"><subject>1506</subject><subject>1842</subject><subject>1706</subject><subject>1723</subject><subject>1704</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Adherence to antiretroviral drug therapy in adult patients who are HIV-positive in Northwest Ethiopia: a study protocol</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bezabhe</surname><given-names>Woldesellassie M</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1">1</xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af2">2</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Peterson</surname><given-names>Gregory M</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bereznicki</surname><given-names>Luke</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Chalmers</surname><given-names>Leanne</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1">1</xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Gee</surname><given-names>Peter</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="af1">1</xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="af1"><label>1</label><institution>School of Pharmacy, University of Tasmania (UTAS), Sandy Bay Campus</institution>,<addr-line>Tasmania</addr-line>,<country>Australia</country></aff><aff id="af2"><label>2</label><institution>College of Medicine and Health Science</institution>,<institution>Bahir-Dar University</institution>,<addr-line>Bahir-Dar, Gojjam</addr-line>,<country>Ethiopia</country></aff><author-notes><corresp><label>Correspondence to</label> Woldesellassie M Bezabhe; <email>mwoldesellassie@yahoo.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2013</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>31</day><month>10</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><issue>10</issue><elocation-id>e003559</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>7</day><month>7</month><year>2013</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>19</day><month>9</month><year>2013</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>3</day><month>10</month><year>2013</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. 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See: <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/</ext-link></license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:title="pdf" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="bmjopen-2013-003559.pdf"></self-uri><self-uri content-type="draft-revisions-pdf" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="bmjopen-2013-003559.draft_revisions.pdf"></self-uri><self-uri content-type="reviewers-comments-pdf" xlink:type="simple" xlink:href="bmjopen-2013-003559.reviewer_comments.pdf"></self-uri><abstract><sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Achievement of optimal medication adherence and management of antiretroviral toxicity pose great challenges among Ethiopian patients with HIV/AIDS. There is currently a lack of long-term follow-up studies that identify the barriers to, and facilitators of, adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the Ethiopian setting. Therefore, we aim to investigate the level of adherence to ART and a wide range of potential influencing factors, including adverse drug reactions occurring with ART.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods and analysis</title><p>We are conducting a 1-year prospective cohort study involving adult patients with HIV/AIDS starting on ART between December 2012 and March 2013. Data are being collected on patients’ appointment dates in the ART clinics. Adherence to ART is being measured using pill count, medication possession ratio and patient's self-report. The primary outcome of the study will be the proportion of patients who are adherent to their ART regimen at 3, 6 and 12 months using pill count. Taking 95% or more of the dispensed ART regimen using pill count at given points of time will be considered the optimal level of adherence in this study. Data will be analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical procedures.</p></sec><sec><title>Ethics and dissemination</title><p>Ethics approval was obtained from the Tasmania Health and Medical Human Research Ethics Committee and Bahir-Dar University's Ethics Committee. The results of the study will be reported in peer-reviewed scientific journals, conferences and seminar presentations.</p></sec></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Clinical Pharmacology</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><boxed-text position="float"><caption><title>Strengths and limitations of this study</title></caption><sec><title></title><list list-type="bullet"><list-item><p>This study will identify factors that affect adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in treatment naïve patients who are initiated on ART with long-term follow-up.</p></list-item><list-item><p>Rates of patient drop out, loss to follow-up and death are high in this setting, which may challenge the success of the project.</p></list-item></list></sec></boxed-text><sec id="s1"><title>Introduction</title><p>Ethiopia is home to approximately 800 000 patients with HIV/AIDS and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the general population is estimated to be 1.5%.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R1">1</xref> The free antiretroviral therapy (ART) programme in Ethiopia, introduced in 2005, has decreased mortality and morbidity and improved the quality of life of patients.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R2">2</xref> In the past 8 years, decentralisation and scale-up of the HIV care programme has occurred and by the end of 2011, 249 174 adult patients (86% of eligible patients) were on ART.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R1">1</xref></p><p>Achievement of optimal medication adherence, management of antiretroviral drug-related toxicities and patient retention<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R3">3</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R4">4</xref> are becoming the greatest challenges in the management of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. A cross-sectional study of Ethiopian patients reported an adherence rate of 88.1%,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R5">5</xref> which is below the near perfect adherence (≥95%) required to maintain the effectiveness of ART.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R6">6</xref></p><p>Patient retention in HIV care facilities is low, averaged 51–85% in 55 Ethiopian HIV care facilities in a 2-year patient follow-up study.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R3">3</xref> Similarly, a 2011 report from the Ethiopian Ministry of Health indicated that patients dropping out from HIV care was a serious issue, with up to 40% of patients who started ART dropping out from treatment in some regions of the country.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R7">7</xref> Mortality and drop out from treatment are most common in the first year of patient follow-up in Ethiopia.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R8">8</xref></p><p>Adherence to medication is a dynamic behaviour affected by factors related to treatment regimen complexity, patient-related variables, patient–healthcare provider relationships and the quality of healthcare services.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R9">9</xref> Patient adherence to ART is influenced by regimen-related factors such as pill burden, frequency of dosing, adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and fluid and dietary restrictions.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R10">10</xref> Similarly, patient-related factors such as lack of transport, shortage of food, use of traditional medicine, alcohol abuse, depression, stigma and discrimination and lack of social support undermine adherence.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R11 R12 R13 R14">11–14</xref> Further, a poor patient–healthcare provider relationship and low quality services, such as lack of confidentiality and privacy and drug stock outs can hamper adherence with ART.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R12">12</xref></p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>Justification for this study</title><p>The sustainable effectiveness of ART depends on patient's ability to adhere with their long-term ART. There is a lack of long-term follow-up studies to identify the various factors altering the medication adherence to ART in Ethiopia. While one prospective study has investigated adherence to ART in Ethiopia<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R15">15</xref>; it was only conducted for 3 months and also did not focus on treatment of naïve patients. A prospective study with a longer follow-up focusing on treatment of naïve patients is required to assess the level of adherence in this patient group and its barriers and facilitators. There is also a need to conduct a prospective study in Ethiopian patients with HIV/AIDS to assess the emergence of ADRs to ART in clinical practice, and the potential relationship between ADRs and non-adherence to ART.</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>Objectives</title><p>The objectives of this study are to establish the level of medication adherence and identify factors that influence medication adherence, and assess the incidence of ADRs and associated risk factors in Ethiopian patients with HIV/AIDS initiated on ART.</p></sec><sec id="s4"><title>Methods and analysis</title><sec id="s4a"><title>Study design</title><p>This study is a prospective cohort study in which adult Ethiopian patients with HIV/AIDS initiated on ART are being followed from the time of ART initiation (month (M)=0) to 12 months of therapy (M=12). ART-initiated patients have an appointment every month for 6 months and every 3 months thereafter in ART clinics in Ethiopia; research pharmacists are collecting data on appointment dates. The timeline of data collection activities is structured as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="BMJOPEN2013003559F1">figure 1</xref>. The data collection points coinciding with the patients’ clinic appointments, not representing additional contact with healthcare providers to minimise the Hawthorne effect on adherence. The sequencing and repeating of measures is to observe the time pattern of different predictors on adherence to ART in treatment naïve patients. Depression, stigma, HIV-treatment knowledge, healthcare relationship and belief about medication and HIV-symptom index may affect adherence in a time-dependent manner and are being measured before and after 6 months of patients’ ART using validated scales. Data regarding the concomitantly administered medications, comorbidities, ADRs and laboratory values are being collected on every appointment date.</p><fig id="BMJOPEN2013003559F1" position="float"><label>Figure 1</label><caption><p>Study design. ADR, adverse drug reaction; BMQ, Belief about Medication Questionnaire; CES-D, Centre for Epidemiological Studies-Depression; HCR, Health Care Relationship; HSI, HIV-Symptom Index.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="bmjopen2013003559f01"></graphic></fig></sec><sec id="s4b"><title>Study setting</title><p>The project is being carried out in two hospitals in Northwest Ethiopia: Gondar University Hospital and Felege-Hiwot Hospital. Each hospital has 400 beds and serves a catchment area of 5 million people. The total number of patients with HIV/AIDS attending each hospital is approximately 7000 and 10 000 at Gondar University Hospital and Felege-Hiwot Hospital, respectively. Recruitment into the study occurred between December 2012 and March 2013. The study will continue to March 2014, which will allow a follow-up period of at least 12 months for each patient.</p></sec><sec id="s4c"><title>Inclusion/exclusion criteria</title><p>All patients with HIV/AIDS at least 18 years initiated on ART for the first time were invited to participate. Patients whose follow-up was to be conducted in outlying areas, rather than at the hospital where ART was initiated, were not included.</p></sec><sec id="s4d"><title>Sample size</title><p>The sample size for this study was determined based on a previous study, where 76% of patients had optimal dose, time and food adherence to ART.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R15">15</xref> Taking a 95% confidence level and precision of 0.07, the sample size was estimated to be 143.</p><p>Based on an average of 43 new patients per month, within 4 months of recruitment in each ART clinics the pool of patients for recruitment will be 344. Allowing for a non-participation rate of 23% and loss to follow-up of up to 30% (Mekides B and Desalew K, July 2012, personal communication), the sample size was achievable.</p></sec><sec id="s4e"><title>Recruitment</title><p>Between December 2012 and March 2013, participants were initially invited by their nurses to participate in this study. At the first visit (usually 2 weeks before ART initiation), nurses gave patients information about the study and invited them to participate. If patients were interested in participating in the study, the research pharmacists contacted them to discuss the research. Informed consent was obtained from volunteer participants using a standard information statement and consent form. Each participant is receiving US$3 to reimburse their time and transport costs. The characteristics of patients who declined participation were collected to determine the representativeness of the sample.</p></sec><sec id="s4f"><title>Measures</title><p>The questionnaires have been spread to track changes of the different parameters over time as shown in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="BMJOPEN2013003559F1">figure 1</xref>, while minimising questionnaire fatigue. Assessment of adherence is a problematic issue as there is no gold standard method of measurement.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R16">16</xref> In this study self-report, pill count and medication possession ratio (MPR) are being used to measure adherence at months 3, 6, 9 and 12. Use of multiple measures of adherence is recommended in literature as there is no single optimal measure of adherence.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R16">16</xref> Adherence to medication found using multiple measures would be converted into ‘percentage dose adherence’ and triangulated. For example, self-reported percentage adherence over 30 days will be triangulated with the percentage of dose adherence obtained using the pill count over the same duration, which will be useful to estimate patients’ true medication adherence. Percentage adherence to each of the medications will be calculated and the lowest dose adherence taken as the adherence for a given patient.</p><p>The primary outcome of the study will be the proportion of patients who are adherent to their ART regimen at 3, 6 and 12 months using the pill count. The optimal level of adherence in this study will be considered as taking 95% or more of the dispensed ART regimen using pill count at a point in time. Adherence from pill counts will be calculated by dividing the difference between current and previous pill counts by the number of pills that have to be taken during the same period.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R5">5</xref> Pill counts have been found to be an economic and reliable measure of adherence in resource-limited settings.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R17">17</xref></p><p>A modified AIDS Clinical Trial Group (ACTG) self-reported adherence questionnaire that asks patients how many doses they missed in the last 7 days is being used to measure patients’ dose adherence to ART. In addition, two four-item modified questionnaires from the ACTG are being used to measure time and food adherence in the last 7 days.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R18">18</xref> Assessing multiple dimensions of adherence by using all items of the ACTG self-reported adherence questionnaires has provided a strong measure of adherence.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R19">19</xref> Self-reported adherence is well correlated with viral load suppression and is particularly suitable for resource-limited settings because of its low cost.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R20">20</xref></p><p>Patients stating they have missed medication will be asked to indicate reasons why from a list of 16 reasons (eg, away from home, busy with other things or simply forgot). Fourteen of the reasons for non-adherence are taken from the ACTG<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R18">18</xref> and two reasons associated with traditional medicine and religious treatment, respectively, were obtained from literature review.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R11">11</xref></p><p>Pharmacy refill records are being reviewed and the MPR will be calculated by dividing the total number of days covered with the medication dispensed by the number of days between the first fill and the last refill plus the days’ supply of the last refill.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R21">21</xref> This method is suitable in our study as HIV-medication is refilled only from the nearby governmental hospital/health centre pharmacy in Ethiopia.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R1">1</xref> Pill count and MPR are superior to self-reported adherence measures and well correlated with virological failure and clinical outcomes.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R22">22</xref> Biological surrogate markers such as viral load and CD4 count correlate with medication adherence.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R23">23</xref> The CD4 count is measured every 6 months in ART clinics; the measures at months 6 and 12 will be used as a biological surrogate marker of adherence. Viral load is not routinely measured in Ethiopian clinical practice and so has not been included in the trial protocol.</p><p>Depression in patients is being evaluated using the seven-item questionnaire of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. This scale has been extensively applied in different settings, including in patients with HIV/AIDS.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R18">18</xref> The Revised Berger HIV Stigma Scale has been used for measurement of stigma. The 10 items of the Berger Stigma Scale have been validated in youth who are HIV-positive.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R24">24</xref> The Berger Stigma Scale was also used in Kenyan patients with HIV/AIDS.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R25">25</xref> A higher score indicates the existence of greater stigma.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R26">26</xref></p><p>Previous studies have suggested that a lack of social support predisposes patients with HIV/AIDS to medication non-adherence.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R27">27</xref> Patients’ satisfaction with the social support they get from family members and friends and the help of the support for remembering their medication is being measured using two four-point scale social support questionnaires.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R18">18</xref></p><p>The HIV treatment knowledge scale is being used to measure patients’ knowledge on adherence, ADRs and drug resistance. This instrument has been developed and validated by Balfour <italic>et al</italic><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R28">28</xref> in patients with HIV/AIDS taking ART.</p><p>The Belief about Medication Questionnaire (BMQ) is being used to measure patients’ beliefs about ART. The BMQ consists of two five-item scales probing patients’ beliefs about the necessity of the given medication and their concerns about possible ADRs.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R29">29</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R30">30</xref></p><p>The trust between the patients and healthcare providers is being measured using the 13-item Healthcare Relationship (HCR) trust scale. Items are rated from 0 to 4; the total score ranges from 0 to 52 and a higher score indicates a greater level of trust.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R31">31</xref></p><p>A self-completed HIV Symptom Index (HSI) is used to measure patients’ concern about 20 possible symptoms associated with ART ADRs. The research pharmacists are interviewing patients, their caregivers and physicians, and referring to patients’ medical records and documenting detailed information regarding the adverse effects that patients experience. The severity of ADRs is being rated using the WHO ADR severity scale.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R32">32</xref> Similarly, a physician and a pharmacist have been determining the causality of each ADR using Naranjo's probability scale.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R33">33</xref> The reliability between raters and within raters has been improved significantly (p<0.001) with the use of Naranjo's probability scale.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R33">33</xref> This Scale has been widely used in various settings.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R34">34</xref> In addition, the Schumock and Thornton scale has been used to rate the preventability of adverse drug events.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R35">35</xref></p><p>Sociodemographic and socioeconomic variables such as age, gender, marital status, religion, level of education, number of children, employment status, disclosure of HIV status, average number of meals per day, monthly income, transportation costs to the clinic and waiting time in the hospital are collected at the baseline.</p><p>Laboratory data such as weight, height, history of ADRs, hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection status, WHO stage of HIV/AIDS, CD4 count, haematocrit, white blood cell (WBC) count, absolute neutrophil count, platelet count, liver function tests (alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin direct and total), renal function tests (such as blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine and urea) and ART regimen, date of initiation, dose and frequency of treatment, other concomitant medications and comorbidities have been recorded from patients on each appointment date from their medical records using a clinical and laboratory data collection sheet.</p><p>‘Drop out’ from ART programme is defined as patients not presenting for refilling of their ART for the past 3 months. Patients’ record are being used to calculate the number of days covered by the last dispensed HIV medication and 90 days will be added to determine the date when patients are categorised as ‘drop outs’. The characteristics of study participants who do not make at least 6 months of follow-up (non-persistent patients) will be examined separately and compared with those who are persistent. Patients lost to the follow-up are being tracked by peer counsellors working in the ART clinics of both hospitals using the registered address and phone number of them or their family member or close friend in their medical record which may help to avoid bias. The reason for being lost to follow-up has been recorded. Sociodemographic and clinical prognostic characteristics of those who are lost from the treatment and those continuing ART will be compared.</p><p>The percentage of missing items for each scale will be calculated for each participant. If more than 10% of the items of the scale are missed, the patient's total score on that scale will be excluded from data analysis at that time point. The proportion of missing participants for each variable of interest will be calculated.</p></sec><sec id="s4g"><title>Statistical analysis</title><p>Descriptive univarate analysis will be conducted for sociodemographic and socioeconomic variables. Adherers will be compared with non-adherers with the Pearson's χ<sup>2</sup> test for categorical variables and independent samples t tests for normally distributed continuous data. Similarly, the characteristics of patients who developed ADRs and did not develop ADRs will be compared using Pearson's χ<sup>2</sup> tests for categorical variables and independent samples t test for continuous variables. Risk factors for adherence will be determined by investigating the influence of sociodemographic, socioeconomic and psychosocial variables, healthcare provider relationship, beliefs about medications and ADRs. Risk factors for ADRs will be determined by investigating the effects of gender, age, body mass index, CD4 count, history of drug allergy, comorbidities, concomitant medications and type of regimen. Multiple variable binary logistic regression will be used to evaluate the independent influence of these risk factors on adherence. The exposure and the potential confounders will be modelled in relation with the outcome variable for adjustment using a multiple-predicative regression model. The final model will be determined after checking multicollinearity. All statistical calculations will be performed using SPSS V.21. A p value of <0.05 will be considered as statistically significant.</p></sec><sec id="s4h"><title>Quality control</title><p>The English-speaking native researcher made the forward translation of the validated questionnaires into Amharic language. Two physicians working in the ART clinics of the Ethiopian hospitals reviewed the developed Amharic versions. A professional translator made the backward translation to check the difference between the Amharic versions and the original English versions. The differences between the source version and target version were settled by a meeting of the forward translator, a physician and the back translator, and final Amharic versions were developed. The Amharic version was pretested with 40 adult patients receiving ART who would not be included in the main study to check for the reliability and validity of the questionnaires. On average it took about 23 min for the participants to complete the questionnaires at each appointment date. Items found to be problematic by patients were modified.</p></sec><sec id="s4i"><title>Data management</title><p>The investigators have been checking the collected data for completeness, accuracy and clarity. These checks have been performed daily after data collection and amendments have been made before the next data collection point. Data clean-up and cross-checking have also been performed prior to data analysis. The research pharmacists have been assessing the severity,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R32">32</xref> causality<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R33">33</xref> and preventability<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R35">35</xref> of adverse events separately using validated algorithms.</p><p>The data are being entered from the two study sites in Ethiopia into a custom-built website housed on a secure server at the University of Tasmania. Stored data backed up on a daily basis. Access to the information is only granted to authenticated investigators from anywhere using the Internet.</p><p>The custom-built website generates data collection forms for printing. After completion these forms are being scanned and then uploaded to the website. The data from the forms are being entered onto the website by the research pharmacists. A random sample of the scanned forms have been checked against the website data to ensure accuracy. Additionally, the website has a sophisticated series of checks to ensure that fields are entered and that all fields are within expected values. Researchers at each site have been informed of any incomplete or inconsistent data.</p></sec></sec><sec id="s5"><title>Strengths of the study</title><p>Several features in the design and planning of the project contribute to the strengths of the study. First, the study is intended to examine predictors of adherence from different perspectives including patient characteristics, medication regimens and the healthcare system. Patients’ socioeconomic status, level of education, belief and knowledge of HIV medication, social support and psychosocial variables are mentioned as predictors of adherence elsewhere.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R36">36</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R37">37</xref></p><p>Second, the study uses multiple measures of adherence, which is recommended in the literature as there is no gold standard method of adherence measurement.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R16">16</xref> Although patients in sub-Saharan Africa have been reported to have a comparable rate of adherence with those in the developed countries,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R38">38</xref> there is a plausible explanation in the literature that studies in sub-Saharan Africa measure adherence mainly using self-report, which overestimates adherence by as much as 20%.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R39">39</xref> Patients refill their HIV-medication in a specific government ART clinic pharmacy; this allows us to use pill count and pharmacy records for adherence measurement.<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R16">16</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R40">40</xref><xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R41">41</xref></p></sec><sec id="s6"><title>Limitations of this study</title><p>Rates of patient drop out, loss to follow-up and death are high in this setting,<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R8">8</xref> which may challenge the success of the project. The multiple measures of adherence used in the study may alter patients’ behaviour and overestimate medication adherence (ie, Hawthorne effect).<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="R42">42</xref></p><p>The study period may not be sufficient to document long-term ADRs, such as endocrine and metabolic adverse events, which may need more than 1 year to become apparent. Patients may not show up in ART clinics for treatment of ADRs or may be treated in other nearby clinics, which may underestimate the incidence of ADRs.</p></sec><sec id="s7"><title>Ethics and dissemination</title><p>Nurses working in the ART clinics familiarised patients with the study; research pharmacists delivered further information to interested participants. Participants were given the chance to read and understand the information sheet and to ask any questions before providing written consent. Copies of the information sheet and consent form were handed on to study participants who consented. All personally identifying information has been removed from the questionnaires and study documents. Study participants have been identified only using a unique study number. The data will be stored in a locked filing cabinet in the Bahir Dar University premises for 5 years; afterwards the data will be shredded and disposed of in secure bins. Access to the filing cabinet and custom-built website will only be granted to authenticated investigators. We will disseminate our findings through a public presentation to stakeholders working on HIV/AIDS treatment in Ethiopia. The results of the study will be reported in peer-reviewed scientific journals, conferences and seminar presentations. Our findings will also be openly presented and defended as part of a PhD thesis.</p></sec><sec sec-type="conclusions" id="s8"><title>Conclusion</title><p>The study is expected to provide extensive information about adherence, including the barriers to, and facilitators of, adherence, and the ADR profile among a cohort of Ethiopian patients starting on ART. This will establish an important foundation for a subsequent intervention study focusing on improving adherence in ART naïve patients with HIV/AIDS.</p></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material"><title>Supplementary Material</title><supplementary-material id="d35e172" content-type="local-data"><caption><title>Author's manuscript</title></caption><media mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf" xlink:href="bmjopen-2013-003559.draft_revisions.pdf"></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material id="d35e173" content-type="local-data"><caption><title>Reviewer comments</title></caption><media mimetype="application" mime-subtype="pdf" xlink:href="bmjopen-2013-003559.reviewer_comments.pdf"></media></supplementary-material></sec></body><back><ack><p>The authors would like to thank nurses working in antiretroviral therapy (ART) clinics of both hospitals for their participation in the design of the study. The authors acknowledge Endalkachew Admassie for his contribution during the design of the study.</p></ack><fn-group><fn><p><bold>Contributors:</bold> WMB, GMP, LC, LB and PG have contributed equally to the design of the study. WMB drafted the manuscript. PG developed the custom-built website. 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