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Spillover effects of HIV testing policies: changes in HIV testing guidelines and HCV testing practices in drug treatment programs in the United States

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, July 2016
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Title
Spillover effects of HIV testing policies: changes in HIV testing guidelines and HCV testing practices in drug treatment programs in the United States
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BMC Public Health, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12889-016-3322-4
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Jemima A. Frimpong, Thomas D’Aunno, Stéphane Helleringer, Lisa R. Metsch

Abstract

To examine the extent to which state adoption of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2006 revisions to adult and adolescent HIV testing guidelines is associated with availability of other important prevention and medical services. We hypothesized that in states where the pretest counseling requirement for HIV testing was dropped from state legislation, substance use disorder treatment programs would have higher availability of HCV testing services than in states that had maintained this requirement. We analyzed a nationally representative sample of 383 opioid treatment programs from the 2005 and 2011 National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey (NDATSS). Data were collected from program directors and clinical supervisors through telephone surveys. Multivariate logistic regression models were used to measure associations between state adoption of CDC recommended guidelines for HIV pretest counseling and availability of HCV testing services. The effects of HIV testing legislative changes on HCV testing practices varied by type of opioid treatment program. In states that had removed the requirement for HIV pretest counseling, buprenorphine-only programs were more likely to offer HCV testing to their patients. The positive spillover effect of HIV pretest counseling policies, however, did not extend to methadone programs and did not translate into increased availability of on-site HCV testing in either program type. Our findings highlight potential positive spillover effects of HIV testing policies on HCV testing practices. They also suggest that maximizing the benefits of HIV policies may require other initiatives, including resources and programmatic efforts that support systematic integration with other services and effective implementation.

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Unknown 67 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 13 19%
Researcher 12 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 6%
Student > Bachelor 4 6%
Other 4 6%
Unknown 25 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 15%
Psychology 7 10%
Social Sciences 6 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 5 7%
Computer Science 2 3%
Other 7 10%
Unknown 30 45%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 August 2016.
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#6,758,671
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Outputs from BMC Public Health
#7,048
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#114,693
of 365,421 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#167
of 354 outputs
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