UNITED STATES: Correlates of Intent for Repeat HIV Testing Among Low-Income Women Attending an Urgent Care Clinic in the Urban South

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UNITED STATES: Correlates of Intent for Repeat HIV Testing Among Low-Income Women Attending an Urgent Care Clinic in the Urban South

Public Health Nursing (09.04) Vol. 21; No. 5: P. 419-424(6) - Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Richard Crosby; Elizabeth A. Bonney; Lydia Odenat

A critical challenge of the AIDS epidemic among African- American women is promoting routine HIV testing for those at risk, explained the authors. The current exploratory study sought to identify behavioral and psychosocial correlates of intent for repeat testing among women disenfranchised from traditional health-care delivery systems.

The authors conducted face-to-face interviews with 143 women attending an urgent care center in the urban South. "In multivariate analyses, three psychosocial correlates were significantly associated with women's intent for repeat testing," they reported. "Women who expressed less worry about HIV were substantially more likely, than those expressing greater worry, to report low intent for repeat testing [adjusted odds ratio (AOR)=10.6, p=0.001]. Concern about having blood drawn was also robustly associated with intent (AOR=7.3, p=0.002). Finally, a one unit increase on the 5- point scale assessing less agreement that having HIV would make life complicated corresponded to 3.3 greater odds of indicating low intent (AOR=3.3, p=0.002)."

These findings provide a possible focal point for efforts designed to promote routine HIV testing among at-risk African- American women, the authors concluded.
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