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Introduction: HIV testing amongst many people visiting the Sexually Transmitted Disease clinic is very low leading to many unrecognized HIV infection cases in those clinics.
Reference: Weinstock, H., Dale, M., Linley, L., & Gwinn, M. (2002). Unrecognized HIV infection among patients attending sexually transmitted disease clinics. American Journal of Public Health, 92(2), 280-3. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/215103074?accountid=45049
Kind of research: Quasi-experimental.
Purpose: Is to inspect the HIV testing rate amongst the many patients attending STD clinics.
Design: There is unlinked HIV testing done on the blood testers that have been collected from the normal hospital’s operations.
Participants: Patients attending STD clinics
Procedure: Unnamed and unlinked investigation of HIV seroprevalence as well as extracting information from other health data.
Variables: Are the patients attending STD clinics and the number of STD clinic attendees go for HIV testing.
Level of Measurement (data): 52 260 patients were tested in the survey.
Instrumentation: Unlinked HN serosurveys.
Sample: The samples are very dependent because they include STD clinic attendees and who are likely to be HIV positive.
Sampling Technique: Intact groups.Statistical Tests: t-test
Results or Findings: HIV testing programs do not successfully take place in STD clinics thus making large number of patients going untested even those infected with HIV.
Conclusions: Most patients attending STD clinics usually go untested for HIV infections.
Critique: The method used in carrying out this study was satisfactory because the sources used were primary sources which included STD clinics. The number of clinics from different cities was also sufficient as far as sampling is concerned. However, information collected did not take into account the STD clinics with high number of patients thus may lead to neglect of very effective areas of study.
