AllyQuest Adherence App Intervention for HIV-positive Men Who Have Sex With Men and Transgender Women: Pilot Trial

"AQ provides daily ART reminders and calendar; weekly tailored message; monthly appointment and refill reminders; social support via daily chat wall; daily challenge featuring skills-building and articles; education center; narrative collections; in app account rewards daily use by adding or subtracting small financial reward dependent on daily app use; personalized profile and avatar. Participants have 24-hour access to all features of the AQ app."

In AQ+, participants receive all of AQ and have the added ability to text in the app with an adherence counselor, using Next Step Counseling (NSC). NSC is an interactive, client-centered motivational intervention to improve ART adherence. Key components of NSC include: review experiences with adherence, exploration of adherence facilitators and barriers, identification of adherence needs, identification of strategies to meet needs, and development of an adherence action plan. AQ+ includes unprompted check-in messages from the NSC counselor and scheduled in-app NSC sessions approximately every other week.