Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Retention in HIV Primary Care: A Longitudinal Multisite Analysis

• Published in: AIDS and behavior Vol. 27; no. 5; pp. 1514 - 1522
• Main Authors: Sohail, Maira, Mugavero, Michael, Long, Dustin, Levitan, Emily B., Batey, D. Scott, Reed-Pickens, Harriette, Rana, Aadia, Carodine, Alyssa, Nevin, Christa R., Eady, Seqouya, Parmar, Jitesh, Turner, Kelly, Orakwue, Ifeanyi, Miller, Theresa, Wynne, Tracy, Kay, Emma Sophia
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.05.2023; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome; AIDS; Alabama - epidemiology; Alliances; Black or African American; Cisgender; COVID-19; COVID-19 - epidemiology; Female; Health care; Health Psychology; HIV; HIV Infections - epidemiology; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Infectious Diseases; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Original Paper; Pandemics; Patient Compliance; Patients; Primary care; Primary Health Care; Public Health; Regression analysis; Regression models; Retention; Sexual and Gender Minorities; Sociodemographics; Statistical analysis; Telemedicine; Transgender persons; Alabama; COVID-19; retention in care; pre-COVID-19; HIV; no show; visit constancy

We compared retention in care outcomes between a pre-COVID-19 (Apr19-Mar20) and an early-COVID-19 (Apr20-Mar21) period to determine whether the pandemic had a significant impact on these outcomes and assessed the role of patient sociodemographics in both periods in individuals enrolled in the Data f...