Quach L, McGarvey S, Mayer K, Lurie M, Espocito C, Trinh H, Do P, Cao T, Dansereau L, Nguyen L, Nguyen TT, Bui DK; International Conference on AIDS (15th : 2004 : Bangkok, Thailand).
Int Conf AIDS. 2004 Jul 11-16; 15: abstract no. ThPeB7271.
Brown University, Providence, United States
Back ground: Health care providers in Vietnam have been facing an increase in the number of HIV patients and little is known about physicians' preparation for addressing this increase in HIV positive patients in their practices. Understanding health care provider knowledge, attitudes and practices toward HIV/AIDS treatment is important to program planning. Methods: An observational cross sectional survey was conducted with 156 physicians in summer, 2003. The study sample was randomly selected among providers who had some contact with HIV-infected. A structured interview was self-administered. EXCEL and SAS were used for data entry and analysis. Primary results: 93% of physicians have seen HIV/AIDS patients in their practices. Of them, 50.3% had at least 20 HIV/AIDS patients. 76.3% of physicians provided treatment for opportunistic diseases. 22.1% of them prescribed ART for their patients. However, they all used monotherapy in less than 3 months. More than 95% of physicians knew the main modes of HIV transmission. However, 27.6% thought that good nutrition could prevent HIV/AIDS infection. Also, 10.9% did not know that touching HIV/AIDS patients, and 10.3% did not know that mosquito bite could not transmit HIV infection. Only 39.7% of physicians knew that there is more than 1 type of HIV. 23.08% knew that the seroconversion rate for healthcare workers with needle stick injuries is less than 1%. 70.5% knew that STD treatment could decrease the probability of HIV infection.23.7% of physicians strongly disagreed that HIV/AIDS patients should be treated in special hospitals and clinics. 12.8% of physicians were not very worried about contracting HIV infection from their patients. Conclusion Even though physicians are providing health care for HIV/AIDS patients, the level of knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding HIV/AIDS treatment suggest that further training is needed to improve their ability to deliver appropriate treatment to HIV/AIDS patients.
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Keywords:
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
- Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
- Attitude
- Attitude of Health Personnel
- Cross-Sectional Studies
- HIV Infections
- HIV Seropositivity
- Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Health Personnel
- Humans
- Knowledge
- Physicians
- Vietnam
- drug therapy
- education
- therapy
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UI: 102281051
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