Drenna Waldrop?Valverde|Ying Guo|Raymond L. Ownby|Allan Rodríguez|Deborah L. Jones
Risk and Protective Factors for Retention in HIV Care
Emory University|Emory University|Nova Southeastern University|University of Miami|University of Miami
retention care hiv essential effective disease management however factors may confer risk protection adherence regular hiv care less well understood study tested whether hivassociated cognitive impairment ci low health literacy reduced adherence routine hiv medical phlebotomy visits social support patientprovider relationship conferred protective effect participants 210 hivinfected patients enrolled outpatient care followed 28weeks results showed attending 75 phlebotomy visits likely virally suppressed health literacy unassociated adherence medical phlebotomy visits ci directly related medical phlebotomy visit adherence however ci greater use social support less likely miss medical visits utilizing social support may effective means managing visit adherence especially among patients ci