Table 3 Interventions’ characteristics addressed to reengage patients to HIV care

Details of the intervention

- Addressing patients with mental health, social needs or prevention services [27,28,29,30, 38, 39, 45, 46]

- Comprehensive picture of the patient’s complete health/needs [26, 33, 36, 41, 48]

- Promoting self-determination and self-care [27, 29]

- Providing information on medication, access to care and treatment rights [25, 27, 29, 30, 38, 45, 46]

- Building the staff-patient relationship and enhancing strengths [26, 29]

- Knowledge and skills building [29, 38]

- Schedule, change and complete a medical appointment [25, 26, 31,32,33,34, 42, 45]

- Patient-centred care, setting objectives for patients and clinicians [27, 29, 31, 38]

- Offering alternatives to complete appointments [23,24,25,26, 28, 31, 32, 36]

- Identify and offering and solutions to the barriers to care [25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33, 36, 39, 41, 42]

Theoretical background

- Social cognitive and wellness motivation theory [29]

- Strengths-based case management/counselling [26,27,28, 33, 37, 47]

- Motivational interview and behavioural skills [30, 38, 46,47,48, 50]

Length and time needed

- Three – ten phone calls [25, 30, 33, 49]

- Two sessions of 20 to 44 min. Each followed by 5 phone calls during 10 weeks [38]

- Six sessions (1 per week, during 6 weeks) + 1 booster session 6 weeks later [29]

- One face-to-face interview of 45 min approximately [44, 46]

- Two to ten sessions depending on the patients’ needs [26, 27]

- Three field visits [33]