Journal articleJournal of community health · August 2020
Approximately 4.1 million adults in the United States have past or current hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Despite efforts to test at least once for the 1945-1965 birth cohort population and others identified at risk, the completion of the annual risk a ...
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Journal articleJournal for Nurse Practitioners · March 1, 2020
Although preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is more than 92% effective in preventing human immunodeficiency virus, primary care providers underprescribe it. This quality improvement project was designed to increase the provision of PrEP to people at high risk ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · November 2018
Anal dysplasia can lead to anal cancer, which affects persons living with HIV (PLWH) more than people in the general population. Screening for anal dysplasia is recommended to detect anal cancer at an early stage. The aim of our process improvement project ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2016
Responding to a national need for a new workforce of HIV care providers as the first generation of providers decrease their practices or retire, the Duke University School of Nursing, with funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration, deve ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · May 2016
In the United States, only 30% of HIV-infected persons are diagnosed, engaged in care, provided antiretroviral therapy, and virologically suppressed. Competent HIV care providers are needed to achieve optimal clinical outcomes for all people living with HI ...
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Journal articleJ Pain Symptom Manage · July 2015
CONTEXT: HIV-related fatigue remains the most frequent complaint of seropositive patients. OBJECTIVES: To describe the natural course of fatigue in HIV infection, in a sample (n=128) followed for a three-year period. METHODS: A longitudinal prospective des ...
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Journal articleClinical nursing research · October 2014
HIV-related fatigue remains the most troubling complaint of seropositive people. Researchers often use tools to measure fatigue that were developed for other patient populations; thus, the measurement of fatigue specific to HIV is needed. This article desc ...
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Journal articleJ Assoc Nurses AIDS Care · 2014
Blacks living in the southern United States are disproportionately affected by HIV infection. Identifying and treating those who are infected is an important strategy for reducing HIV transmission. A model for integrating rapid HIV screening into community ...
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Journal articleAIDS Behav · December 2010
Fatigue is one of the most common and debilitating symptoms experienced by HIV-infected people. We report the results of our longitudinal analysis of physiological and psychosocial factors that were thought to predict changes in HIV-related fatigue in 128 ...
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Journal articleAIDS Patient Care STDS · April 2009
Fatigue is one of the most common and debilitating complaints of HIV-positive individuals, potentially leading to important functional limitations. We recruited 128 HIV-positive individuals (fatigued and nonfatigued) between March 2005 and May 2006; 66% we ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · January 2009
In this report, the authors describe the relationships between daytime sleepiness, nighttime sleep quality, stressful life events, and HIV-related fatigue in a sample of 128 individuals; they report the baseline results of a longitudinal observational stud ...
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Journal articleAIDS care · November 2008
Despite the fact that fatigue is a common and debilitating symptom among HIV-infected persons, we know little about the predictors of fatigue in this population. The goal of this cross-sectional study was to examine the effects of early childhood trauma, r ...
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Journal articleAIDS care · August 2008
In the era of life-prolonging antiretroviral therapy, chronic fatigue is one of the most prevalent and disabling symptoms of people living with HIV/AIDS, yet its measurement remains challenging. No instruments have been developed specifically to describe H ...
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Journal articleThe Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care : JANAC · March 2008
Fatigue is one of the most debilitating symptoms suffered by those with HIV infection, yet little is known about its correlates. The primary aims of this study were to describe the degree to which fatigue affects daily functioning and the demographic and i ...
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Journal articleClinical nursing research · February 2008
Our primary aim is to describe the relationship of multiple physiological variables and HIV-related fatigue. We report baseline data collected from 128 human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive individuals. The HIV-Related Fatigue Scale was used to measu ...
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Journal articleAIDS Res Hum Retroviruses · March 20, 2000
The purpose of this study was to determine whether thymic transplantation in addition to highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) will restore T cell function in HIV infection. Eight treatment-naive HIV-infected patients with CD4+ T cell counts of 200- ...
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