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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.

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Updated: August 16, 2010