The Brief Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Index: A Rapid 3-Item Scale to Measure Engagement in HIV Care

John A Sauceda; Nadra E Lisha; Natasha Ludwig-Barron; Jorge Salazar; Samantha E Dilworth; Mallory O Johnson; Katerina A Christopoulos; Kimberly A Koester; Richard D Moore; Kenneth H Mayer; Rob J Fredericksen; Michael J Mugavero; Torsten B Neilands

doi:10.1093/cid/ciad200

The Brief Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Index: A Rapid 3-Item Scale to Measure Engagement in HIV Care

Clin Infect Dis. 2023 Aug 14;77(3):425-427. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciad200.

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California (UC), San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA.
² Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
³ The Fenway Institute and Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.

Abstract

We created a brief version of The Index, a validated patient-reported measure that has potential to quickly identify patients at risk for poor retention. We analyzed Index scores from 2406 patients from 2016 to 2017 in a national cohort of patients in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care. Index scores predicted poor retention 12 months after administered.

Keywords: brief; engagement in HIV care; measure; retention in HIV care; viral load.

Publication types

Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

HIV Infections* / diagnosis
HIV Infections* / drug therapy
HIV*
Humans
Viral Load

The Brief Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Index: A Rapid 3-Item Scale to Measure Engagement in HIV Care

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