Acceptability and feasibility of the CHARISMA counseling intervention to support women’s use of pre-exposure prophylaxis: results of a pilot study

Table 2 Participants’ reactions to CHARISMA components

	HEART (n = 92)	Healthy relationships counseling module (n = 92)^a	Supplemental counseling modules
	HEART (n = 92)	Healthy relationships counseling module (n = 92)^a	Partner communication (n = 30)^a	Ring disclosure (n = 27)^a	IPV (n = 54)^a
Ease of understanding (HEART questions only)
Very easy	70%	NA	NA	NA	NA
Somewhat easy	20%	NA	NA	NA	NA
Somewhat difficult	10%	NA	NA	NA	NA
Very difficult	1%	NA	NA	NA	NA
Relevance
Highly relevant	25%	54%	57%	67%	47%
Somewhat relevant	61%	39%	43%	26%	31%
Not very relevant	14%	7%	0%	7%	22%
Helpfulness
Very helpful	79%	83%	90%	89%	73%
Somewhat helpful	18%	17%	10%	7%	20%
Not helpful	2%	0%	0%	3%	7%
Length
Too long	25%	18%	13%	7%	11%
About right	61%	68%	83%	78%	74%
Not long enough	14%	13%	3%	15%	15%
Preference for computer or counselor administration
Strongly prefer computer	36%	27%	27%	22%	30%
Somewhat prefer computer	2%	2%	3%	4%	4%
No preference	13%	16%	20%	19%	19%
Somewhat prefer a counselor	8%	4%	7%	0%	7%
Strongly prefer a counselor	41%	50%	43%	56%	41%

^aAll 92 participants received the healthy relationships counseling module and at least one other counseling module

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