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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2017 May;21(5):1256–1267. doi: 10.1007/s10461-016-1625-1

Table III.

Differences in Comfort with PrEP Clinical Activities, Awareness of PrEP, Familiarity with prescribing PrEP, PrEP Discussion, and PrEP Prescription Based on Provider Type and Geographic Area.

Atlanta Chicago Dallas Houston LA NYC Miami Philadelphia SF DC Χ2
n
 All Providers 41 54 36 44 56 52 41 57 59 39
 HIVPs 14 24 8 7 27 30 25 31 37 21
 PCPs 27 30 28 37 29 22 16 26 22 18
Comfortable with PrEP activities
 All Providers 68% 76% 64% 55% 77% 71% 73% 81% 78% 87% 16.88+
 HIVPs 86% 96% 88% 71% 96% 90% 84% 90% 84% 91% 6.70
 PCPs 59% 60% 57% 51% 59% 46% 56% 69% 69% 83% 8.93
Heard of PrEP
 All Providers 76% 80% 72% 71% 91% 94% 85% 88% 98% 95% 33.84***
 HIVPs 93% 92% 100% 86% 100% 100% 96% 100% 100% 100% 14.18
 PCPs 67% 70% 64% 68% 83% 86% 69% 73% 96% 89% 13.89
Familiar with prescribing PrEP
 All Providers 29% 50% 28% 27% 59% 69% 44% 54% 64% 62% 40.74***
 HIVPs 57% 79% 75% 29% 93% 80% 64% 81% 78% 76% 18.24*
 PCPs 15% 27% 14% 27% 28% 55% 13% 23% 41% 44% 19.19*
Ever discussed PrEP
 All Providers 37% 52% 33% 43% 70% 79% 56% 56% 73% 77% 45.27***
 HIVPs 64% 88% 88% 71% 89% 90% 84% 87% 92% 100% 12.71
 PCPs 22% 23% 18% 38% 52% 64% 13% 19% 41% 50% 27.80***
Prescribed PrEP
 All Providers 24% 33% 33% 18% 46% 62% 29% 30% 58% 54% 40.85***
 HIVPs 50% 50% 88% 57% 70% 80% 44% 48% 76% 86% 23.37**
 PCPs 11% 20% 18% 11% 24% 36% 6% 8% 27% 17% 12.86
***

p < .001

**

p < .01

*

p < .05

+

p = .05

HIVPs and PCPs were compared using chi-square tests. LA = Los Angeles; NYC = New York City; SF = San Francisco; DC = Washington, D.C