PrEP Provision and Persistence among Primary Care Providers

<b>Background and Review of Literature</b>: This study examined individual opinions from healthcare providers in Indiana about their willingness to prescribe Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). <b>Purpose</b>: Describe facilitators and barriers to provider’s willingness to prescribe PrEP in order to inform policies and procedures to improve PrEP use as a prevention tool amongst targeted populations. <b>Methods</b>: Healthcare providers were administered a pre-test assessment to assess current knowledge about PrEP. A brief educational intervention was shared, and post-test administered to evaluate any change in knowledge and attitudes towards PrEP provision. <b>Procedures</b>: Electronic mail, online survey tools and personal interviews were used to obtain information about the willingness to prescribe PrEP to patients and responses were deidentified for confidentiality and anonymity prior to analysis and distribution of results. Pre- and post-test assessments were derived from published tools (used with permission) to assess PrEP attitudes, knowledge, and skills. The survey captured information about healthcare provider demographics, education, and opinions, in addition to knowledge and attitudes about PrEP, including initiation of treatment, prescribing, maintenance and discontinuation of services. <b>Implications/Conclusion</b>: Responses obtained overwhelmingly supported provider education about PrEP, standardized protocols, and policies about PrEP provision at the practice and institution levels and supported expert practitioners on hand within the practice to use as real-time resources when questions arise, consistent with earlier published studies.

Creator

• Holder, Chauna

Contributors

• Baack, Cathryn

Language

• English

Keyword

• PrEP
• HIV
• PEP
• protocols
• policies

Date created

• 2021

Resource type

• Research Paper

Rights statement

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