Evidence-based Clearinghouse Resource Details
Positive Self-Management Program for HIV (PSMP) and Manejando su Salud con VIH/SIDA
The Positive Self-Management Program (PSMP) is a two and a half hour workshop for people with HIV. Workshops are provided once a week for seven weeks in community settings such as senior centers, churches, libraries and hospitals. Workshops are facilitated by two trained leaders, one or both of whom are non-health professionals with HIV. The PSMP is available in English, Spanish, and Japanese.
Contact Information
Stanford Patient Education Research Center
1000 Welch Road, Suite 204
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone: (650) 723- 7935
E-mail: self-management@standford.edu
http://patienteducation.stanford.edu/programs/psmp.html
Reference Material
Gifford, A.L., Laurent, D.D., Gonzalez, V.M., Chesney, M.A., & Lorig, K.R. (1998). Pilot randomized trial of education to impove self-management skills of men with symptomatic HIV/AIDS. Journal of Acquired Immune Defieiency Syndrome and Human Retrovirology, 18(2), 136-144.
Updated: August 16, 2010