dc.description.abstract | Psycho-social support for HIV infected patients is critical in ensuring these patients remain
connected to the health facility. This is because HIV patients need medication attention and
support that should always be within their reach. Ensuring these pateints get the neccessary
psychosial support increases their opportunities to be in touch with the health care insututions
and these would be paramount to their health status. Despite provision of free medicine
offered by the organizations, many HIV infected patient have not often been attending the
clinics to collect the drugs and there has continued to be a decline in the number of those
attending the clinic after being tested and put on treatment, the number of those attending the
clinic continuing declining. With this in mind this study investigated the influence of psychosocial
support with a focus to disclosure counseling, transport facilitation, peer educator
groups and adherence monitoring on the retention of HIV patients in ampath care based clinic
in eldoret, Kenya. The purpose of the study was to assess the influence of psycho-social
support programme on retention into care based clinic among patients with HIV in Eldoret,
Kenya. This study was guided by the following specific objectives, to; estabilish how
disclosure counseling influence retention of HIV patients in AMPATH care based clinic in
Eldoret, Kenya, examine how transport reimbursement influence retention of HIV patients in
AMPATH care based clinic in Eldoret, Kenya, investigate how peer educator groups
counseling influence retention of HIV patients in AMPATH care based clinic in Eldoret,
Kenya and to determine how adherence counseling influence retention of HIV patients in
AMPATH care based clinic in Eldoret, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey study
design. The target population for this study included 355 respondents made up of325
patients and & are caregiver providers (staff). Therefore for this study 30% of 325 patients
were sampled to give 87 sample sizes of patients and 30 health care providers. The study used
two research instruments namely the questionnaire and guided interview schedules. In this
study, questionnaires was piloted in a pilot survey using 8 patients and interview schedules
to 2 pyschosocial staff from mosoriot AMPATH clinic. The reliability tests for all the
variables revealed a coefficient of 0.863which was above 0.70. The variables were therefore
reliable for use by the study. Data was organized and analyzed using descriptive statistics and
inferential statistics. This study used tables to present the information. The study findings
from the regression model indicated that there was a significant relationship between
Disclosure Counselingand Retention of HIV Patients (p=0.000). The study concluded that the
level of self-competence of the healthcare providers determines the quality of care and
retention of HIV patients. The study recommended that the health care providers should
enrich proper records for the people who attend clinic and peer educator groups in order to
clear understand the increase or decrease in the numbers of patients attending to these
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