Patient preferences for violence screening in HIV care settings.

ABSTRACT: Experiences of interpersonal- and community-level violence are common among people with HIV (PWH) and associated with poor health outcomes, underscoring a need to implement violence screening and support in HIV care. To inform this implementation, we explored preferences of PWH regarding integration of violence screening into HIV care. From February-December 2022, 64 in-depth interviews were conducted with PWH in Atlanta, Georgia as part of a larger mixed-methods study. Participants were purposively selected for diversity of gender, race/ethnicity, violence exposure history, HIV viral suppression, and retention in care. Themes explored included acceptability of violence screening in HIV care and preferences for doing so (in-person, paper-pencil, computerized), screening item phrasing, scre

SUBMITTER: Kalokhe AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12701307 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature