Assessing the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model to Predict Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Adherence Among Black Men Who have Sex with Men and Transgender Women in a Community Setting in New York City.

ABSTRACT: The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) Model has been used to understand adherence to medications and intentions to uptake pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV infection. In the current study, the IMB Model was used to understand factors that predict adherence to PrEP among a community-based cohort of 204 Black men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW) using structural equation modeling. PrEP motivation was directly associated with PrEP behavioral skills (β = 0.320, p = 0.009), and PrEP behavioral skills were directly associated with PrEP adherence (β = 0.416, p = 0.001). PrEP knowledge and PrEP motivation were not associated with PrEP adherence, directly or indirectly. The analysis identified intervenable factors that predicted PrEP adherence. Scree

SUBMITTER: Knox J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9167713 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature