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01-10-2010 | Original Paper

Individual and Treatment Setting Predictors of HIV/AIDS Knowledge Among Psychiatric Patients and Their Implications In a National Multisite Study in Brazil

Authors: Ana Paula Souto Melo, Cibele Comini César, Francisco de Assis Acurcio, Lorenza Nogueira Campos, Maria das Graças Braga Ceccato, Milton L. Wainberg, Karen McKinnon, Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães

Published in: Community Mental Health Journal | Issue 5/2010

Abstract

The objective of this study is to measure HIV/AIDS knowledge among patients with mental illness in Brazil and to examine individual and treatment setting predictors of knowledge. We conducted a cross-sectional national multicenter study among 2,475 patients in 26 randomly selected mental health institutions throughout Brazil. We used Item Response Theory to standardize knowledge scores and multilevel multiple linear regression to determine the effect of individual and treatment setting characteristics on standardized knowledge score. Schizophrenia was the main diagnosis (48%) of participants. Mean knowledge score was 6.78 (range 1–10). Treatment setting characteristics were not associated with knowledge scores. Higher HIV/AIDS knowledge scores were significantly associated with a history of sexually transmitted disease (STD), previous HIV testing and consistent condom use; lower HIV/AIDS knowledge scores were significantly associated with specific sociodemographic, psychiatric, and HIV risk-perception factors. Psychiatric patients in Brazil lag behind the general population with knowledge scores comparable to those of nearly a decade ago. The mental health system in Brazil and elsewhere must consider strategies beyond dispensing information, for preventing HIV/AIDS transmission in the psychiatric population.

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Title: Individual and Treatment Setting Predictors of HIV/AIDS Knowledge Among Psychiatric Patients and Their Implications In a National Multisite Study in Brazil
Authors: Ana Paula Souto Melo
Cibele Comini César
Francisco de Assis Acurcio
Lorenza Nogueira Campos
Maria das Graças Braga Ceccato
Milton L. Wainberg
Karen McKinnon
Mark Drew Crosland Guimarães
Publication date: 01-10-2010
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Community Mental Health Journal / Issue 5/2010
Print ISSN: 0010-3853
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2789
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-010-9303-7

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