False Beliefs About ART Effectiveness, Side Effects and the Consequences of Non-retention and Non-adherence Among ART Patients in Livingstone, Zambia

Beliefs about antiretroviral treatment (ART) are crucial for treatment success but not well documented in sub-Sahara African countries. We studied the frequency of false beliefs about ART in 389 ART patients in Livingstone, Zambia. Despite intensive pre-ART counseling, we find that more than half of...

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Autores principales: Nozaki, Ikuma, Kuriyama, Mika, Manyepa, Pauline, Zyambo, Matilda K., Kakimoto, Kazuhiro, Bärnighausen, Till
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2012
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548105/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22714115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0221-2
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author Nozaki, Ikuma
Kuriyama, Mika
Manyepa, Pauline
Zyambo, Matilda K.
Kakimoto, Kazuhiro
Bärnighausen, Till
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description Beliefs about antiretroviral treatment (ART) are crucial for treatment success but not well documented in sub-Sahara African countries. We studied the frequency of false beliefs about ART in 389 ART patients in Livingstone, Zambia. Despite intensive pre-ART counseling, we find that more than half of the patients hold at least one false belief about ART effectiveness, side effects, or the consequences of ART non-retention or non-adherence. Commonly held false beliefs—e.g., pastors can cure HIV infection through prayer and ART can be stopped without harmful effects while taking immune-boosting herbs—are likely to decrease ART adherence and retention.
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spelling pubmed-35481052013-01-18 False Beliefs About ART Effectiveness, Side Effects and the Consequences of Non-retention and Non-adherence Among ART Patients in Livingstone, Zambia Nozaki, Ikuma Kuriyama, Mika Manyepa, Pauline Zyambo, Matilda K. Kakimoto, Kazuhiro Bärnighausen, Till AIDS Behav Brief Report Beliefs about antiretroviral treatment (ART) are crucial for treatment success but not well documented in sub-Sahara African countries. We studied the frequency of false beliefs about ART in 389 ART patients in Livingstone, Zambia. Despite intensive pre-ART counseling, we find that more than half of the patients hold at least one false belief about ART effectiveness, side effects, or the consequences of ART non-retention or non-adherence. Commonly held false beliefs—e.g., pastors can cure HIV infection through prayer and ART can be stopped without harmful effects while taking immune-boosting herbs—are likely to decrease ART adherence and retention. Springer US 2012-06-20 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3548105/ /pubmed/22714115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0221-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2012 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.
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