Fatores relacionados à adesão ao tratamento antirretroviral em serviço de atendimento especializado

Abstract

Introduction: Compliance is one of the main variables in which the health services may intervene in order to increase the treatment efficacy. Several factors can contribute to a better compliance or guarantee its adequacy. Objective: Verify the level of compliance to the antiretroviral treatment and its associated factors. Method: Descriptive study of cross-sectional design based on data retrieved from medical records. To achieve the objective, it was used a questionnaire composed of socialdemographic and clinical informations recorded from patients aged between thirteen and fifty-nine years attended in a specialized attendance service comprising the period from 2007 to 2014. Chi-square test was performed to verify the association of the outcome with the categorical variables. Continuous variables were compared through the "Student" t test.