ORCHID: An Online Intervention for Persons With HIV (Miami)

ORCHID: A Novel Positive Affect Intervention for Aging, Racial/Ethnic Minoritized Women With HIV (Miami)

The purpose of this research is to test ORCHID (Optimizing Resilience & Coping with HIV through Internet Delivery), a skills-building intervention that improves mental health status for persons with HIV, who are at-risk for falling out of care.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Cis-gender women,
2. Receiving human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care at the University of Miami Women's HIV Service,
3. Recent history (12-month) of cervical or anal dysplasia or human papilloma virus (HPV) positivity; AND a recent (12-month) history of one or more of the following:

i) drug use (alcohol, tobacco products, marijuana, illicit drugs) or ii) depression or iii) psychiatric condition (anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) or iv) unsuppressed HIV viral load d. All life stages - pregnant, non-pregnant, pre/post-menopausal

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Under 18
2. Not able to read/write English at the 6th grade level
3. Cognitively impaired adults (as documented in medical records)
4. Debilitating psychiatric condition (e.g. schizophrenia/bi-polar/psychotic disorders)
5. Prisoners