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Influences on visit retention in clinical trials: Insights from qualitative research during the VOICE trial in Johannesburg, South Africa

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Women's Health, July 2014
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (88th percentile)
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Title
Influences on visit retention in clinical trials: Insights from qualitative research during the VOICE trial in Johannesburg, South Africa
Published in
BMC Women's Health, July 2014
DOI 10.1186/1472-6874-14-88
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Authors

Busisiwe Magazi, Jonathan Stadler, Sinead Delany-Moretlwe, Elizabeth Montgomery, Florence Mathebula, Miriam Hartmann, Ariane van der Straten

Abstract

Although significant progress has been made in clinical trials of women-controlled methods of HIV prevention such as microbicides and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), low adherence to experimental study products remains a major obstacle to being able to establish their efficacy in preventing HIV infection. One factor that influences adherence is the ability of trial participants to attend regular clinic visits at which trial products are dispensed, adherence counseling is administered, and participant safety is monitored. We conducted a qualitative study of the social contextual factors that influenced adherence in the VOICE (MTN-003) trial in Johannesburg, South Africa, focusing on study participation in general, and study visits in particular.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 141 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 15%
Researcher 13 9%
Student > Bachelor 12 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 7%
Other 23 16%
Unknown 36 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 24%
Social Sciences 23 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 11%
Psychology 13 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 4%
Other 15 11%
Unknown 36 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. 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 05 December 2015.
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#2,456,320
of 22,758,963 outputs
Outputs from BMC Women's Health
#227
of 1,799 outputs
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#26,165
of 228,709 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Women's Health
#4
of 26 outputs
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