Telephone Screening for Risk of HIV Infection

Bibliographic Data

ID9099654
AuthorsKyle Montgomery (0000-0001-5235-1492, corresponding author), Kathleen Montgomery, Charles E Lewis (University of California, Los Angeles), Paul Kirchgraber (APLA Health)
Year1991
Volume29
Issue5
Pages399-407
Publication date1991-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
PublisherOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-199105000-00001
PMID2020205
OpenAlexW1983688485
LanguageEN
References cited8

This study responds to a Centers for Disease Control request to develop innovative case-finding methods and asks two questions: 1) Will men participate in an anonymous telephone interview containing detailed questions about their sexual practices to enable screening for HIV-related risk? 2) Will individuals told they are at increased risk follow up by calling a toll-free number for additional AIDS information, counseling, or medical evaluation? Random-digit-dialed interviews were completed with 1610 adult men in Los Angeles County; the completion rate among eligible men was 68.3%. Nearly 43% of men were assessed at increased risk, half of whom described behaviors that placed them only at moderate risk and half of whom reported behaviors placing them at higher risk. Although the study found men were willing to provide personal risk-assessment information, only 14 of 343 men were willing to initiate a follow-up telephone call to the project counselors as the next step in case-finding

Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) · Telephone call · Telephone interview · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology · Gerontology

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