Binational Care-Seeking Behavior and Health-Related Quality of Life Among HIV-Infected Latinos in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
María Luisa Zúñiga,Estela Blanco,Jesse J. Brennan,Rosana Scolari,Irina Artamonova,Steffanie A. Strathdee +5 more
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Staying for 1 or more months in Mexico in the past year was associated with higher cognitive functioning and less pain, and Border‐related factors were inconsistently implicated in HRQL measures.Citations
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A binational comparison of HIV provider attitudes towards the use of complementary and alternative medicine among HIV-positive Latino patients receiving care in the US-Mexico border region.
TL;DR: This binational study conducted in-depth, qualitative interviews in Tijuana and San Diego to understand US and Mexican provider beliefs, and perceptions surrounding CAM use among Latino patients, and to learn if and how CAM communication occurs.
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Healthcare provider perspectives on barriers to HIV-care access and utilisation among Latinos living with HIV in the US-Mexico border
TL;DR: Differences and similarities between Mexican and US healthcare provider perspectives on HIV care access and barriers to service utilisation have important implications for cross-border efforts to coordinate health services for patients who seek care in both countries.
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Choosing sides: HIV health care practices among shared populations of HIV-positive Latinos living near the US-Mexico border.
TL;DR: San Diego patients were twice as likely to make unsupervised changes in their ART regimen as those with visits in Tijuana, and poorer relative adherence was observed among HIV-positive Latinos receiving care in San Diego, despite reports of good clinical relationships.
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A Binational Study of Patient-Initiated Changes to Antiretroviral Therapy Regimen Among HIV-positive Latinos Living in the Mexico–U.S. Border Region
TL;DR: Being female, having ≥1 sexual partner (past 3 months), ≤6 years since HIV diagnosis and poor health were associated with increased odds of ART changes, raising concern about sub-optimal adherence among this binational population.
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Calidad de vida y variables psicológicas que afectan la adherencia al tratamiento anti-retroviral en pacientes mexicanos con infección por VIH/SIDA
Itzel Gutiérrez-Gabriel,Jesús Godoy-Guinto,Herzain Lucas-Alvarado,Benito Pineda-Germán,Eduardo Vázquez-Cruz,Maricarmen Hernández-De laRosa,Francisca Sosa-Jurado +6 more
TL;DR: Good adherence to ART was associated with avoiding depressive behavior and with non-addictions and not associated with quality of life.
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Delayed medical care after diagnosis in a US national probability sample of persons infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
Barbara J. Turner,William E. Cunningham,Naihua Duan,Ronald M. Andersen,Martin F. Shapiro,Samuel A. Bozzette,Terry T. Nakazono,Sally C. Morton,Steven Crystal,Patti St. Clair,Michael D. Stein,Sally Zierler +11 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that Medicaid insurance and a usual source of care were protective against delay after HIV diagnosis for Latinos and African Americans compared with whites, and the health care factors showed similar effects on delay of greater than 6 months.
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Housing need, housing assistance, and connection to HIV medical care
TL;DR: Findings provide strong evidence that housing needs are a significant barrier to consistent, appropriate HIV medical care, and that receipt of housing assistance has an independent, direct impact on improved medical care outcomes.
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Heading south: why Mexican immigrants in California seek health services in Mexico.
TL;DR: Mexican immigrants are the most likely to seek medical, dental, and prescription services in Mexico, and a large number, but small percentages, of US-born nonLatino whites purchase prescription drugs there.
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Variation in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use across racial/ethnic groups and the development of ethnic-specific measures of CAM use.
An-Fu Hsiao,Mitchell D. Wong,Michael S. Goldstein,Hongjian Yu,Ronald M. Andersen,E. Richard Brown,Lida M. Becerra,Neil S. Wenger +7 more
TL;DR: Demographic and clinical factors associated with use of ethnic-specific CAM differed from the predictors of overall CAM use in the general population and varied by ethnicity.
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