Factors Affecting Health Care Seeking Behaviour among Newly Diagnosed HIV Cases in Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Objective: To assess the factors affecting health care seeking behaviour among newly diagnosed Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) cases in Rawalpindi. Methods: An analytical cross sectional study was conducted among 30 newly diagnosed HIV patients in Armed forces institute of transfusion (AFIT) Rawalpindi from 1st Oct to 31 Dec 2019 (within last 3-12 months), after obtaining informed voluntary consent, employing a purposive sampling technique. Confirmed HIV cases belonging to all genders and above 18 years of age were asked to respond to a structured validated questionnaire to collect data. Data was entered and analysed in SPSS version 22. Mean and Standard deviation were calculated for continuous variables. Pearson’s correlation test was applied to find out the magnitude of relationship between the health care seeking behaviour scores and the factors affecting it. A p value of

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