ArticleJournal of community health2016
Health Beliefs and Co-morbidities Associated with Appointment-Keeping Behavior Among HCV and HIV/HCV Patients.
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- Hepatitis C Care in the Greater New Orleans Area: Patient Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Care.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2025Article
- Disengagement from Care Among People Co-Infected with HIV and HCV: A Scoping Review.AIDS and behavior · 2024Article
- Cost of Hepatitis C care facilitation for HIV/Hepatitis C Co-infected people who use drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2022Article
- Characteristics and Specialist Linkage to Care of Patients Diagnosed With Chronic Hepatitis C Across Different Settings in an Urban Academic Hospital: Implications for Improving Diagnosis and Linkage to Care.Frontiers in microbiology · 2021Article
- HCV Screening and Treatment Uptake Among Patients in HIV Care During 2014-2015.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2019Article
- Awareness and knowledge of hepatitis C among health care providers and the public: A scoping review.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2018Article
- Hepatitis C Virus Elimination in the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Coinfected Population: Leveraging the Existing Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infrastructure.Infectious disease clinics of North America · 2018Review
- Development and Validation of HEPCA-Lat: A Bilingual Hepatitis C Virus Knowledge Scale for Latino Men.American journal of men's healthObservational
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Abstract
Appointment-keeping behavior is an important requisite for HCV linkage and treatment initiation. In this study we examine what impact hepatitis C (HCV) knowledge and attitudes has on appointment-keeping behavior among a cohort of HCV and HCV/HIV patients. Knowledge scores and attitude scales, obtained from a cross-sectional survey, were correlated with proportion of appointments kept 1 year prior to taking the survey. Independent risk factors for missing appointments were examined by multiple regression analysis. 292 HCV patients completed the survey, and 149 (51%) were co-infected with HIV. HCV patients kept 67.5 ± 17.4% of their total appointments and a similar proportion (67 ± 38.2) of Liver Clinic appointments, but they attended a higher proportion (73 ± 24.4) of Primary Care Clinic appointments. However, certain health beliefs, psychiatric illness, and HIV co-infection were independently associated with lower levels of appointment-keeping behavior. HCV knowledge was not associated with appointment-keeping behavior. Health beliefs, psychiatric illness, and HIV co-infection are associated with missing appointments, but no link between knowledge and appointment keeping behavior is apparent. In order to increase engagement into HCV care, HCV care coordination programs need to focus on addressing health beliefs and providing resources to those at highest risk for missing appointments.
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