PMID- 23549943
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20140703
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1472-1465 (Electronic)
IS  - 0007-1250 (Linking)
VI  - 202
IP  - 4
DP  - 2013 Apr
TI  - Acceptability and necessity of HIV and other blood-borne virus testing in a 
      psychiatric setting.
PG  - 307-8
LID - 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.119529 [doi]
AB  - Studies in North America and Europe indicate that the prevalence of blood-borne 
      viruses (BBVs) is elevated in individuals with severe mental illness; there are 
      no comparable data for the UK. We offered routine testing for HIV, and hepatitis 
      B and C in an inner-London in-patient psychiatric unit as a service improvement. 
      Of the patients approached 83% had mental capacity to provide informed consent 
      for testing and 66% of patients offered testing accepted. Although it was not our 
      objective to establish the prevalence of BBVs, 18% of patients had serological 
      evidence of a current or previous BBV infection. We found that offering routine 
      testing in an in-patient psychiatric setting is both practical and acceptable to 
      patients.
FAU - Sanger, Camilla
AU  - Sanger C
AD  - Department of Clinical Health Psychology, Central and North West London NHS 
      Foundation Trust, London, UK.
FAU - Hayward, Janine
AU  - Hayward J
FAU - Patel, Gira
AU  - Patel G
FAU - Phekoo, Karen
AU  - Phekoo K
FAU - Poots, Alan J
AU  - Poots AJ
FAU - Howe, Cathy
AU  - Howe C
FAU - Bowden-Jones, Owen
AU  - Bowden-Jones O
FAU - Green, John
AU  - Green J
LA  - eng
GR  - NIHR-KMF-2012-01-08/DH_/Department of Health/United Kingdom
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Br J Psychiatry
JT  - The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science
JID - 0342367
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Aged
MH  - Female
MH  - HIV Infections/complications/*diagnosis/epidemiology/*virology
MH  - Hepatitis B/complications/*diagnosis/epidemiology/*virology
MH  - Hepatitis C/complications/*diagnosis/epidemiology/*virology
MH  - Humans
MH  - London
MH  - Male
MH  - Mass Screening
MH  - Mental Competency/psychology
MH  - Mental Disorders/complications/epidemiology/psychology/*virology
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Needs Assessment
MH  - *Patient Acceptance of Health Care
MH  - Prevalence
MH  - Seroepidemiologic Studies
EDAT- 2013/04/04 06:00
MHDA- 2014/07/06 06:00
CRDT- 2013/04/04 06:00
PHST- 2013/04/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/04/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2014/07/06 06:00 [medline]
AID - S000712500027414X [pii]
AID - 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.119529 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Br J Psychiatry. 2013 Apr;202(4):307-8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.bp.112.119529.