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BASELINE PREDICTORS OF THREE TYPES OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (ART) ADHERENCE: A 2-YEAR FOLLOW-UP Nilsson Schönnesson L. 1 Diamond P. 2 Ross MW. 2 Williams M. 2 Bratt G. 1.
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BASELINE PREDICTORS OF THREE TYPES OF ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY (ART) ADHERENCE: A 2-YEAR FOLLOW-UP Nilsson Schönnesson L.1 Diamond P.2 Ross MW. 2 Williams M. 2 Bratt G. 1 1 Gay Men’s Health Clinic, Infectious Disease Clinic, Karolinska University Hospital, Department Karolinska Institute/South Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public HealthUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
Purposes: • to measure patient ART adherence to dose, schedule, and dietary instructions over a two-year period; • to identify predictors of the three types of adherence
Potential predictors of three types of adherence (dose, schedule, and dietary instructions)
Table 1 Baseline demographic and medication regimen characteristics of patients (n = 144)
Table 2 Proportion of patients classified as 100% adherent at baseline and at each of the seven follow up visits
Table 4 Logistic regression analysis on predictors of schedule adherence
ACKNOWLEDGMENT • Our gratitude goes to: • those women and men who participated in the study; • the nurses at Gay Men’s Health Clinic, Söder Hospital and HIV Clinic, Karolinska Hospital for administrating the questionnaires; • the Swedish Foundation for Health Care Sciences and Allergy Research; • Department of Research, Education, and Development, Stockholm City Council; • the Magn Bergvall’s Foundation; • the Swedish Physicians against AIDS Research Foundation, and • the National Institute on Drug Abuse, USA, R03 DA 12328.