TY - JOUR
T1 - Whether Patients Want It or Not, Physician Recommendations Will Convince Them to Accept HIV Testing
AU - Baumann, Katherine Ellen
AU - Hemmige, Vagish
AU - Kallen, Michael Anthony
AU - Street, Richard Lewis
AU - Giordano, Thomas Peter
AU - Arya, Monisha
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K23MH094235 (PI: Arya). This work was also supported in part by the Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety (#CIN 13-413) in Houston, Texas.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018.
PY - 2018/1/29
Y1 - 2018/1/29
N2 - Physicians are not routinely offering patients HIV testing, partly due to perceived patient discomfort with discussing HIV. This study assessed patients’ comfort level and whether physician recommendations can overcome any discomfort that does exist. In a publicly funded primary care clinic, we administered a survey exploring patient facilitators to HIV testing, with 266 patients answering the 2 main survey questions of interest. Most participants wanted their physician to offer HIV testing (n = 175; 65.8%). Even among participants who did not want their physician to offer HIV testing (n = 91), over half (n = 54; 59.3%) reported they would “likely” or “very likely” accept HIV testing if their physician recommended it. Based on our findings, not only are negative attitudes about HIV testing among patients uncommon but physician recommendations may be able to convince patients to receive HIV testing in spite of patients stating they do not want the test.
AB - Physicians are not routinely offering patients HIV testing, partly due to perceived patient discomfort with discussing HIV. This study assessed patients’ comfort level and whether physician recommendations can overcome any discomfort that does exist. In a publicly funded primary care clinic, we administered a survey exploring patient facilitators to HIV testing, with 266 patients answering the 2 main survey questions of interest. Most participants wanted their physician to offer HIV testing (n = 175; 65.8%). Even among participants who did not want their physician to offer HIV testing (n = 91), over half (n = 54; 59.3%) reported they would “likely” or “very likely” accept HIV testing if their physician recommended it. Based on our findings, not only are negative attitudes about HIV testing among patients uncommon but physician recommendations may be able to convince patients to receive HIV testing in spite of patients stating they do not want the test.
KW - HIV
KW - HIV testing
KW - barrier
KW - communication
KW - physician
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U2 - 10.1177/2325957417752258
DO - 10.1177/2325957417752258
M3 - Article
C2 - 29380668
AN - SCOPUS:85057923974
SN - 2325-9574
VL - 17
JO - Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
JF - Journal of the International Association of Providers of AIDS Care
ER -
