Trial reportAmerican journal of public health2013
Reducing HIV-related stigma in health care settings: a randomized controlled trial in China.
Trial report in American journal of public health, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01052415 (POL and Access Intervention to Reduce HIV Stigma Among Service Providers in China), which is not on this map. Cited by 61 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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POL and Access Intervention to Reduce HIV Stigma Among Service Providers in China
Who cites it
61 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Stigma Associated with Alcohol and Other Drug Use Among People from Migrant and Ethnic Minority Groups: Results from a Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Pooled it
- Combating HIV stigma in low- and middle-income healthcare settings: a scoping review.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2020Pooled it
- Local opinion leaders: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Implementation science and stigma reduction interventions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.BMC medicine · 2019Pooled it
- Reducing HIV-related stigma and discrimination in healthcare settings: A systematic review of quantitative evidence.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- A systematic review of interventions to reduce HIV-related stigma and discrimination from 2002 to 2013: how far have we come?Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2013Pooled it
- An Incognito Standardized Patient Approach for Measuring and Reducing Intersectional Healthcare Stigma: A Pilot Cluster Randomized Control Trial.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2025Trial
- An adapted white-coat and warm-heart intervention on nurses' knowledge, general stigmatizing attitudes, and work avoidance behaviors towards HIV: a quasi-experimental study.Journal of occupational health · 2024Trial
- A Pilot Test of Game Changers, a Social Network Intervention to Empower People with HIV to be Prevention Advocates in Uganda.AIDS and behavior · 2020Trial
- Anticipated HIV stigma among HIV negative men who have sex with men in China: a cross-sectional study.BMC infectious diseases · 2020Trial
- Structural Network Position and Performance of Health Leaders Within an HIV Prevention Trial.AIDS and behavior · 2018Trial
- Addressing HIV stigma in protected medical settings.AIDS care · 2015Trial
- Assessing outcomes of a stigma-reduction intervention with venue-based analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2014Trial
- Using standardized patients to evaluate hospital-based intervention outcomes.International journal of epidemiology · 2014Trial
- Implementing a stigma reduction intervention in healthcare settings.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2013Trial
- Testing the efficacy of an HIV stigma reduction intervention with medical students in Puerto Rico: the SPACES project.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2013Trial
- Popular Opinion Leader intervention for HIV stigma reduction in health care settings.AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education · 2013Trial
- Spatial Heterogeneity of Digital HIV/AIDS Stigma in China: Cross-Sectional Ecological Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Article
- Tackling healthcare providers bias: a systematic review of interventions with implications for inclusive clinical research.EClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- A Rapid Review of HIV-Related Stigma-Reduction Randomized Controlled Trials.AIDS and behavior · 2025Review
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Abstract
objectivesThe objective of the intervention was to reduce service providers' stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors toward people living with HIV.
methodsThe randomized controlled trial was conducted in 40 county-level hospitals in 2 provinces of China between October 2008 and February 2010. Forty-four service providers were randomly selected from each hospital, yielding a total of 1760 study participants. We randomized the hospitals to either an intervention condition or a control condition. In the intervention hospitals, about 15% of the popular opinion leaders were identified and trained to disseminate stigma reduction messages.
resultsWe observed significant improvements for the intervention group in reducing prejudicial attitudes (P < .001), reducing avoidance intent towards people living with HIV (P < .001), and increasing institutional support in the hospitals (P = .003) at 6 months after controlling for service providers' background factors and clinic-level characteristics. The intervention effects were sustained and strengthened at 12 months.
conclusionsThe intervention reduced stigmatizing attitudes and behaviors among service providers. It has the potential to be integrated into the health care systems in China and other countries.
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