Document 2166
 DOCN  M94A2166
 TI    Primary care physicians in HIV/AIDS programmes.
 DT    9412
 AU    Jayaratnam R; Smith C; ELCHA, London, UK.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):366 (abstract no. PD0072). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370409
 AB    OBJECTIVES: The aims of the research were to ascertain the proportion of
       primary care physicians working in the London Borough of Newham (LBN),
       England who were: (1) accepting patients with AIDS and HIV infection
       under their care; (2) willing to get information and support to care for
       them. METHODS: All 142 physicians in LBN were sent a postal
       questionnaire containing 28 questions about AIDS and HIV infection.
       Non-responders were sent a repeat questionnaire after one month.
       RESULTS: The final response rate was 47% (66/142). 71% (47/66) of the
       responders replied they were accepting HIV infected patients, and 67%
       (44/66) were accepting patients with AIDS. 61% (40/66) replied they
       needed help to support them to deal with these groups of patients; 15%
       (10/66) physicians who said they do not require support were, however,
       already accepting HIV infected persons under their care. All physicians
       who did not accept these patients felt they would require support to
       care for these patients. 21% (14/66) were willing for their names to be
       disclosed to patients with HIV infection/AIDS but all of them were
       already accepting these groups. Only 9% (6/66) had been in contact with
       the local Health Promotion Unit for further information. DISCUSSION AND
       CONCLUSIONS: The final response rate was poor and may be due to the low
       priority given to HIV/AIDS; however a high proportion of the responders
       were already accepting patients with HIV/AIDS. Only 21% of the
       responders were willing for their names to be publicised. Only 9% of
       physicians had been in contact with the local Health Promotion Unit even
       though 3 full time staff had been attached to this unit for more than 2
       years and had publicised their work widely. Primary care physicians
       therefore need to be provided with better training and support in order
       for them to be more fully integrated into the local HIV/AIDS prevention
       and treatment programmes.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/THERAPY  Data Collection  Human  HIV
       Infections/*THERAPY  London  *Physicians, Family  Refusal to Treat
       MEETING ABSTRACT

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