. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Sep 19.

Published in final edited form as: J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care. 2017 Aug 9;16(5):460–466. doi: 10.1177/2325957417724204

Table 4.

Percentage of HIV Care Providers Who Reported that Patients Often or Very Often Miss Scheduled Follow-up Visits Due to Specified Reasons—Medical Monitoring Project 2013–2014 Provider Survey.^a

	n	wt. %	(95% CI)
Mental health problems	618	40.5	35.8–45.2
Drug or alcohol abuse problems	567	36.1	30.3–41.9
Transportation problems	511	33.9	28.3–39.5
Emotional/psychological barriers related to HIV (e.g., stigma, denial, fear, or anger)	467	30.1	24.8–35.3
Reluctance to admit not following provider’s advice	210	18.6	11.9–25.3
Homelessness	165	10.6	7.8–13.4
Childcare problems	138	8.4	5.7–11.1
Incarceration or legal detention	86	5.7	3.5–7.9
Too sick to travel to clinic	64	4.9	2.9–7.0

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; wt., weighted.

N =1234.