Tailored Motivational Interviewing

Priority Population: Youth ages 16 to 29 year with HIV

Setting: HIV Care Clinic

Location: Detroit, MI

Intervention Focus: Retention

Study Period: 2003-2005

Outcomes

• Clients missed fewer appointments.
• 33% of youth achieved undetectable status (in Healthy Choices, the subsequent randomized controlled trial).

Intervention Components

• Define Priority Youth Characteristics and Data Measures
• Secure Leadership Buy-In
• Assess Staff Competencies and Readiness
• Develop a Youth Advisory Board and Community of Practice
• Recruit TMI Trainers and Staff as Necessary
• Train Staff
• Retain Youth with HIV in Care and Monitor Intervention Fidelity

Cost Analysis

The TMI intervention cost analysis is not currently available. However, you can use the CIE Cost Calculator to create an estimate of the cost of implementing the intervention at your organization.

Implementation Guide

Guía de Implementacion

Publications

• Systematic review of the exploration, preparation, implementation, sustainment (EPIS) framework
• Testing a Motivational Interviewing implementation intervention in adolescent HIV clinics: Protocol for a Type 3, Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness trial
• Motivational Interviewing by peer outreach workers: A pilot randomized clinical trial to retain adolescents and young adults in HIV care
• Improving health outcomes for youth living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: A multisite randomized trial of a motivational intervention targeting multiple risk behaviors

Supplementary Resources

• Healthy Choices – Motivational Enhancement for HIV-related Behaviors: An Implementation Toolkit (PDF)

Trainings

• Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers