Preference for daily oral pills over long-acting antiretroviral therapy options among people with HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the characteristics of people with HIV (PWH) who prefer remaining on daily oral antiretroviral therapy (ART), rather than switching to long-acting ART (LA-ART).

Design

Building upon a discrete choice experiment (DCE), we examined characteristics of individuals who always selected their current daily oral tablet regimen over either of two hypothetical LA-ART options presented in a series of 17 choice tasks.

Methods

We used LASSO to select sociodemographic, HIV-related, and other health-related predictors of preferring current therapy over LA-ART, and logistic regression to measure the associations with those characteristics.

Results

Among 700 PWH in Washington State and Atlanta, Georgia, 11% of participants ( n  = 74) chose their current dai

SUBMITTER: Barthold D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10355802 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature