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• TITLE: Poor Schedule Management Leads to Discontinuity of Medical Attendance among Patients Infected with HIV

  AUTHORS: Fumiko Kagiura, Megumi Shimada, Masayuki Kakehashi

  KEYWORDS: Medical Attendance, Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Text Mining, Face-to-Face Interview

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.11 No.3, March 4, 2019

  ABSTRACT: Dropout from medical attendance is a well-recognized issue among patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. We interviewed 23 HIV-positive patients and used text mining methods to analyse the risk factors for dropout. Fifteen patients continued medical attendance and eight patients dropped out of medical attendance. Categories were extracted from the interview data of the patients who continued medical attendance (i.e., the continuity group) and the patients who dropped out of medical care (i.e., the discontinuity group). Categories of the continuity group included needing to take a day off for medical attendance, scheduling each appointment, writing down medical appointments, being grateful for the medical care, and 12 additional categories. Categories of discontinuity group included forgetting the dates of medical appointments, not needing to get a day off for medical attendance, allowing aid for medical care to expire, and 10 additional categories. The discontinuity group had poorer schedule management than the continuity group, which caused them to forget their next medical appointments and delay the renewal of aid for medical care. Thus, medical staff may be able to prevent dropouts by ensuring that patients record the dates of their medical appointments.