Effectiveness of increasing emergency department patients' self-perceived risk for being human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected through audio computer self-interview-based feedback about reported HIV risk behaviors

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1143-1155

  Merchant, Roland C ^a   Clark, Melissa A ^a   Langan IV, Thomas J ^a   Seage III, George R ^b   Mayer, Kenneth H ^a   DeGruttola, Victor G ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude to health; Emergency medicine; HIV; Intravenous; Risk taking; Sexual behavior; Substance abuse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; COMPUTERS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ENGLAND; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK-TAKING; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73249150925     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00537.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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