Health professional-patient communication and care: evaluation of an intervention for HIV/AIDS treatment adherence

Interventions to improve HIV/AIDS treatment adherence are often based on cognitive approaches of the health professional-patient communication and health behaviors. From a social-constructionist perspective of the health professional-patient communication and treatment experiences, it was assessed the implementation process of an individual psychosocial intervention, consisting of 4 encounters and informed by the conceptual frameworks of Vulnerability and Human Rights in the psychosocial dimension of Care. Taking all 16 encounters (4 encounters with each participant), the implementation process was considered "moderately developed." Difficulties were encountered to develop dialogic conversations and decode meanings regarding the lack of adherence in social situations integrated with interpersonal and sociocultural scenarios. Despite the predominance of guidelines and motivational incentives for patients, there were also dialogic moments of co-understanding difficulties in adherence in its different meanings in medication intake scenes. This approach to care proves to be productive to enhance adherence practices.