1. Partnership status and retention in care among cisgender heterosexual newly diagnosed people with HIV: a cohort study.
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Sohail, Maira, Long, Dustin M., Mugavero, Michael J., Batey, D. Scott, Ojesina, Akinyemi I., and Levitan, Emily B.
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HIV infections , *HETEROSEXUALS , *STATISTICS , *KRUSKAL-Wallis Test , *CONFIDENCE intervals , *SOCIAL support , *VIRAL load , *SEVERITY of illness index , *PSYCHOSOCIAL factors , *DESCRIPTIVE statistics , *MENTAL depression , *RESEARCH funding , *MARITAL status , *PATIENT compliance , *ODDS ratio , *LOGISTIC regression analysis , *STATISTICAL models , *DATA analysis software , *DATA analysis , *CISGENDER people , *PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive persons , *LONGITUDINAL method - Abstract
This study examined the role of partnership status (married, unmarried-partnered, and unpartnered) on retention in care among newly diagnosed (2013–2017), cisgender heterosexual people with HIV in Birmingham, Alabama (n = 152). This study evaluated all scheduled HIV primary care provider visits for two years following diagnosis date. A kept-visit measure was calculated such that, if an individual attended ≥1 visit in each of the four 6-month intervals, they were considered to have high visit constancy. A missed-visit measure was categorized as ≥1 no-show vs. 0 no-show for first and second year after diagnosis. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated using logistic regression models. Models were adjusted for confounding sociodemographic and clinical characteristics. The study population was 76% Black, 57% male, median age of 37 years. Overall, 65% had high visit consistency and 34.5% had ≥1 no-show in both years. Compared to unpartnered, married individuals had higher visit constancy [AOR (95% CI): 2.88 (1.02, 8.16)]; no differences were observed among unmarried-partnered individuals. No differences in having ≥1 no-show among partnership status groups were observed for either year. These findings suggest potential success of interventions involving a social confidant in optimizing retention in care among newly diagnosed, heterosexual PWH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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