Correlates of Medical Mistrust Among Minority Women at Risk for HIV and Their Networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical mistrust is a barrier to engaging in HIV prevention and treatment, including testing and adherence to antiretroviral therapy. Research often focuses on how race and experiences of discrimination relate to medical mistrust, overlooking the role that other characteristics may play (e.g., history of physical abuse, diagnosis of mental illness). Furthermore, studies are often restricted to samples of men who have sex with men and findings may not generalize to other at-risk groups.

Aims

The current study explores a range of demographic, cognitive, behavioral, and social network correlates of medical mistrust.

Method

This study employed an egocentric network design among a racially diverse sample of at-risk women and women in their social networks (n<

SUBMITTER: Johnson LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9276284 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature