Nurse-led PrEP-RN clinic: a prospective cohort study exploring task-Shifting HIV prevention to public health nurses.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To report the results of a nurse-led pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) delivery service.

Design

This was a prospective cohort study conducted from 5 August 2018 to 4 March 2020. It involved manual chart review to collect data. Variables were described using frequencies and percentages and analysed using χ² testing. Those significant in bivariate analysis were retained and entered into a binary multiple logistic regression. Hierarchical modelling was used, and only significant factors were retained.

Setting

This study occurred in an urban public health unit and community-based sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic in Ottawa, Canada.

Participants

Of all persons who were diagnosed with a bacterial STI in Ottawa and everyone who presented t

SUBMITTER: O'Byrne P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7797243 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature