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Table 2 Types of interventions to improve adherence [18]

From: Exploring ‘generative mechanisms’ of the antiretroviral adherence club intervention using the realist approach: a scoping review of research-based antiretroviral treatment adherence theories

Intervention level

Intervention

Intervention type

Individual

- Adherence monitoring

- Directly observed therapy

- Reminder systems (SMS)

- Pre-treatment education

- Counselling (motivational counselling)

- Food parcels

- Behavioural

- Behavioural

- Behavioural

- Cognitive

- Cognitive

- Biological

Relational

- Peer support

- Home visits

- Treatment partner/buddy system

- Affective

- Affective

- Affective

Health system

- Task-shifting

- Simplifying medication

- Alternative distribution

- Antiretroviral chronic clubs

- Community adherence groups

- Structural

- Structural

- Structural

- Multifaceted

- Multifaceted