Sexual Prejudice and Comfort to Provide Services to Men Who Have Sex with Men Among HIV Healthcare Workers in Western Kenya: Role of Interpersonal Contact.
Comfort
Healthcare workers
Interpersonal contact
Kenya
Sexual prejudice
Journal
AIDS and behavior
ISSN: 1573-3254
Titre abrégé: AIDS Behav
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9712133
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Mar 2022
Mar 2022
Historique:
accepted:
13
08
2021
pubmed:
19
8
2021
medline:
16
2
2022
entrez:
18
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Sexual minority men living in Africa, where many countries criminalize same-sex behavior, are vulnerable to HIV and experience significant barriers to HIV care. Sexual prejudice in healthcare settings is a key contributor to these barriers. Building on social psychological models of prejudice and interpersonal contact at the clinic, we examined the associations between healthcare workers' sexual prejudice and their comfort to provide care to MSM, and assessed the moderating role of workers' prior interpersonal contact with MSM. A cross-sectional survey of 147 healthcare workers varying in level of training and expertise working in HIV care organizations was conducted in western Kenya. Sexual prejudice was negatively associated with comfort to provide care to MSM. Prior interpersonal contact with MSM moderated the association between sexual prejudice and comfort to provide care to MSM among nurses/counselors, such that those with low prior contact and high sexual prejudice were the most uncomfortable providing care to MSM. Interventions are needed to address sexual prejudice and encourage positive forms of interpersonal contact with MSM, especially with nurses and counselors who might have more and varied patient interactions, to improve access to the continuum of HIV prevention and care for MSM in Kenya.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34406550
doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03440-4
pii: 10.1007/s10461-021-03440-4
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
805-813Subventions
Organisme : National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
ID : P30AI042853
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01MH118075 and K01MH112443
Pays : United States
Organisme : FIC NIH HHS
ID : D43-TW000237
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R01MH118075 and K01MH112443
Pays : United States
Organisme : FIC NIH HHS
ID : D43-TW000237
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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