The relationship between commitment towards PREP and commitment towards circumcision did not reach statistical significance (OR 2.7; p = 0.15).
Overall 32.9% of study participants described initial commitment towards PREP and 11.1% of uncircumcised participants reported initial commitment towards circumcision.
No studies explore US family planning providers' knowledge of and attitudes towards PrEP.
"I've seen funding go towards PrEP, and reluctance to fund programs that promote the full benefits of viral suppression," Richman tells me.
Truck-drivers exhibited low levels of initial commitment towards PREP and even lower for circumcision.
After assessing baseline knowledge attitudes and beliefs towards PREP and circumcision, the interviewers delivered set paragraphs describing circumcision and PREP in the context of HIV prevention with a "teach back" approach [44] until participant comprehension was achieved.
The interview questions inquired about truck-driver and peer HIV knowledge, perception of risk, sexual experiences, social norms, self-efficacy, knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and initial commitment towards PREP and circumcision.
"50% only" and ".it tries to prevent the HIV, but it is not completely prevents the disease....what is the use to take the medicine...?" Thus the efficacy modeled in this study at 50%, may engender poor commitment towards PREP.
Open coding [39] was first utilized to code the initial interviews by identifying and labeling discrete units of text to generate themes related to attitudes towards PREP and circumcision.
Only two (US) studies explored attitudes towards PrEP amongst heterosexual men and women [ 65, 66].
