1. Primary care providers as a critical access point to HIV information and services for African American and Latinx communities
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Brennan Woodward, Anita Ohmit, Meredith Short, Gregory Carter, and Andrew Gleissner
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RNA viruses ,Male ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,Bisexuals ,Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) ,HIV Infections ,Surveys ,medicine.disease_cause ,Pathology and Laboratory Medicine ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immunodeficiency Viruses ,Health care ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Ethnicities ,030212 general & internal medicine ,African American people ,Virus Testing ,African american ,Multidisciplinary ,Point (typography) ,HIV diagnosis and management ,Hispanic or Latino ,Population groupings ,Health Services ,Middle Aged ,Medical Microbiology ,Research Design ,Viral Pathogens ,Viruses ,Medicine ,Female ,Pathogens ,0305 other medical science ,Research Article ,Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Science ,Health Personnel ,HIV prevention ,MEDLINE ,Primary care ,Research and Analysis Methods ,Microbiology ,Access to Information ,03 medical and health sciences ,Young Adult ,Retroviruses ,medicine ,Humans ,Social media ,Microbial Pathogens ,Primary Care ,Preventive medicine ,030505 public health ,Survey Research ,Primary Health Care ,business.industry ,Lentivirus ,Organisms ,Biology and Life Sciences ,HIV ,Confidence interval ,Diagnostic medicine ,Health Care ,Black or African American ,Public and occupational health ,Family medicine ,People and places ,business ,Sexuality Groupings - Abstract
Purpose This study aimed to examine the association between confidence in accessing HIV services, primary sources of HIV information, and primary care provider status for African American and Latinx individuals in Indiana. Methods An online survey was disseminated to African American and Latinx individuals using snowball and social media recruitment methods, resulting in a final sample size of n = 308. A multivariable linear regression analysis was performed to examine the relationships between confidence accessing HIV services, primary care provider status, sexual identification, and sources of HIV information. Results Of the total respondents, 62.5% (n = 193) identified as male and 36.9% (n = 114) identified as female. Most identified as African American (72.5%, n = 224), followed by 27.2% (n = 84) who identified as Latinx. Participants who used their primary care providers as a primary source of obtaining HIV information had a significantly higher level of comfort with accessing HIV services. Those who identified family members as a primary source of HIV information and those who identified as bisexual demonstrated a lower level of confidence in accessing HIV services. Discussion This study's results enhance our understanding of marginalization within minority groups regarding sexual identification and accessing HIV services. These results also offer insight into the importance of healthcare access because having a primary care provider was a strong predictor of increased confidence in accessing HIV services.
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- 2021