Abstract
Therapeutic effectiveness of a group cognitive-behavioral program to increase treatment adherence and improve emotional status in HIV/AIDS patients. Psychological intervention programs for HIV infection patients are very scarce and studies that present results about effectiveness of these programs still more. In this article we present a group cognitive-behavioral program structured in eight sessions and the preliminary results about its effectiveness. The aim of our program was to increase treatment adherence and improve emotional state of patients. After intervention, statistical significatives changes were observed in treatment adherence, outstanding clinical variables such as anxiety, depression or self-steem and other variables including hypochondriasis, affective disturbance, irritability, interference in different fields of life, perceived social support and health locus of control.
