tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học:" Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : A ttitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees | Byamugisha et al. Journal of the International AIDS Society 2010 13 52 http content 13 1 52 JOURNALOF THE INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY RESEARCH Open Access Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda a cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees 13 2 23 23 3 Robert Byamugisha 1 James K Tumwine Grace Ndeezi Charles AS Karamagi Thorkild Tylleskar Abstract Background HIV testing rates have exceeded 90 among the pregnant women at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital in Mbale District eastern Uganda since the introduction of routine antenatal counselling and testing for HIV in June 2006. However no documented information was available about opinions of pregnant women in eastern Uganda about this HIV testing approach. We therefore conducted a study to assess attitudes of antenatal attendees towards routine HIV counselling and testing at Mbale Hospital. We also assessed their knowledge about mother to child transmission of HIV and infant feeding options for HIV-infected mothers. Methods The study was a cross-sectional survey of 388 women who were attending the antenatal clinic for the first time with their current pregnancy at Mbale Regional Referral Hospital from August to October 2009. Data were collected using a pre-tested questionnaire and analysed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression. Permission to conduct the study was obtained from the Makerere University College of Health Sciences the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology and Mbale Hospital. Results The majority of the antenatal attendees 382 388 had positive attitudes towards routine HIV counselling and testing and many of them more than 60 had correct knowledge of how mother to child transmission of HIV could occur during pregnancy labour and through breastfeeding and ways of preventing it. After adjusting for independent variables having completed secondary school odds