Assessing the Efficacy of a Voluntary HIV Counseling and Testing Intervention for Pregnant Women and Male Partners in Urumqi City, China |
| |
| Authors: | Kaveh Khoshnood Katherine S Wilson Giovanni Filardo Zhendong Liu Ng Hon Keung Zunyou Wu |
| |
| Institution: | (1) Yale School of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA;(2) China CDC-National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, Beijing, China;(3) Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA;(4) Institute for Health Care Research and Improvement, Baylor Health Care System, Dallas, TX, USA |
| |
| Abstract: | This study investigated the efficacy of voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) in an educated cohort of pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in Urumqi, China. VCT was given to women and their partners (experimental group) or women alone (control group). Both groups were given pre- and post-intervention questionnaires to assess HIV knowledge and willingness to get HIV testing. Multivariate analysis showed that all women improved significantly in HIV knowledge between baseline and follow-up. Moreover, HIV knowledge was significantly associated with HIV testing willingness. At follow-up, women in the control and experimental groups were 6.8 and 7.9 times more willing to receive HIV testing than at baseline, respectively. VCT seems effective in this cohort of educated pregnant women. |
| |
| Keywords: | HIV/AIDS Pregnant women China Voluntary counseling and testing |
| 本文献已被 PubMed SpringerLink 等数据库收录！ |
|
