Basta Tania B, Stambaugh Teena, Fisher Celia B
Department of Social and Public Health, Ohio University.
Center for Ethics Education, Department of Psychology, Fordham University.
Ethics Behav. 2015;25(2):125-149. doi: 10.1080/10508422.2014.948958. Epub 2014 Dec 1.
This study sought to assess barriers and enhance readiness to consent to home and Planned Parenthood HIV testing among 60 out-patients from a mental health and substance abuse clinic in rural Appalachia. Testing barriers included not knowing where to get tested, lack of confidentiality, and loss of partners if one tested sero-positive. The intervention yielded lowered HIV stigma, increase in HIV knowledge, and agreement to take the HIV home test. These results are encouraging because they suggest that a brief educational intervention is a critical pathway to the success of the National Institutes on Drug Abuse's Seek, Test, Treat, and Retain initiative in poor rural counties.
本研究旨在评估阿巴拉契亚农村地区一家心理健康与药物滥用诊所的60名门诊患者在同意进行家庭及计划生育艾滋病毒检测方面的障碍，并提高其接受检测的意愿。检测障碍包括不知道去哪里检测、缺乏保密性以及如果检测呈血清阳性会失去伴侣。该干预措施降低了对艾滋病毒的污名化，增加了艾滋病毒知识，并促使患者同意进行艾滋病毒家庭检测。这些结果令人鼓舞，因为它们表明，简短的教育干预是美国国立药物滥用研究所“寻找、检测、治疗和留住”倡议在贫困农村县取得成功的关键途径。
