What is LHIVE Healthy?
LHIVE Healthy is web-based research conducted across Canada. It aims to evaluate if tailored web-based interventions are effective to help people living with HIV (PLHIV) make healthy choices like smoke less, do more physical activity and eat better. Making such choices helps to reduce the risk of developing other diseases and improves quality of life and health.
Who can participate?
Everybody who …
- is 18 years old and up is iving with HIV
- is able to read and understand French or English and has access to Internet
Why participate?
- To have access to quality information
- To develop tricks to make healthier choices
- To contribute to the advancement of research on care for PLHIV
What is involved?
- Register for the online study at www.lhivehealthy.ca
- Complete 3 online questionnaires about 10 minutes over six months (at enrollment, and after 3 and 6 months)
- Participate in a tailored web-based intervention (duration: 15-60 minutes)
- Compensation will be provided after the 2nd and 3rd questionnaire
- Participation in the study is confidential
To help us promote LHIVE Healthy, you can distribute our flyers, hang our posters in your office, display our banner on your website and your social network pages.
For more information and for flyers/posters, contact Patricia Auger, research coordinator at 514-890-8000 ext.17931 or [email protected]
Research Team: José Côté, Sylvie Cossette, Dre Cécile Tremblay, Michal Abrahamowicz, François Boudreau, Dr Jean-Louis Chiasson, Dre Alexandra De Pokomandy, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Joyal Miranda, Pilar Ramirez-Garcia, Catherine Worthington, Ken Monteith, Laurie Edmiston.
Funding: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN).
