作者: A. V. Shankar , H. Pisal , O. Patil , A. Joshi , N. Suryavanshi
DOI: 10.1080/09540120310001618702
关键词: Health education 、 Social support 、 Public health 、 Nursing 、 Structured interview 、 Developing country 、 Population 、 Spouse 、 Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) 、 Medicine
摘要: This study examined acceptability among pregnant women and their husbands for HIV testing within the antenatal clinic (ANC) delivery room (DR) of a government hospital in Pune, India from September 2000 to November 2001. Acceptance counselling was high with 83% eligible (851 1025) 68% (417 613) getting tested on same day. Structured interviews were conducted 94 ANC 50 DR, 100 who accompanied wives ANC. These data indicated that majority agreed be independently without need further consultation family members, view strongly supported this sub-sample accompanying husbands. For delivering not progressing labour, DR allowed individual attention questions concerns thereby making feasible.