Internet use among low-income persons recently diagnosed with HIV infection.
Patients are increasingly using the Internet to obtain health-related information, communicate with providers and access research. Use of the Internet to obtain health-related information by low-income patients recently diagnosed with HIV infection has not been examined. In 2005, we surveyed 126 low...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 19; no. 9; pp. 1182 - 1188 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct2007
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=105887716&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 105887716 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09540121 AAE jtl: AIDS Care issn: 09540121 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2007 vid: 19 iid: 9 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 105887716 105887716 2009744413 10.1080/09540120701402806 NLM18058404 105887716 ppf: 1182 ppct: 6 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Internet use among low-income persons recently diagnosed with HIV infection. aug: au: Mayben JK Giordano TP affil: Department of Family and Community Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX sug: subj: Consumer Health Information HIV Infections Diagnosis Internet Utilization Age Factors Computer User Training Descriptive Statistics Female Funding Source Health Knowledge Male Multivariate Analysis Poverty Prospective Studies Regression Surveys Texas Human Female Male ab: Patients are increasingly using the Internet to obtain health-related information, communicate with providers and access research. Use of the Internet to obtain health-related information by low-income patients recently diagnosed with HIV infection has not been examined. In 2005, we surveyed 126 low-income patients diagnosed with HIV infection within the last three years. Eighty-five percent of the patients were<50 years old, 63% were male, 68% were minority race, 27% were Hispanic and 61% acquired HIV through heterosexual intercourse. Twenty-eight percent never completed high school and 74% earned<$15,000 in 2004. While 89% indicated they would like to use the Internet to access information about HIV, 52% had ever used the Internet, 28% had ever used it to obtain health-related information and only 18% had done so at least monthly for the last six months. Two-thirds of the population studied would need instruction on how to use the Internet. In multivariable regression, 2004 income >/=$15,000 predicted monthly Internet use to obtain health-related information. Older age, heterosexual intercourse as HIV risk factor and inadequate health literacy were independent predictors of needing instruction. The low-income population with HIV infection lags behind the general population in Internet access and may not benefit from Internet-dependent advances in health communication, including HIV-related interventions. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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