The Correlation Between Attitudes Toward HIV/AIDS Transmission Through the Use of Syringes and the Type of Dropout Among the Participants of Methadone Maintenance Treatment

Abstract

among participants of Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) showed that respondents who had positive drop-out among respondents who had good attitudes was 98.0% higher than respondents who had a bad attitude of 57.9%. Based on the results of the multivariate analysis, attitudes toward HIV/AIDS transmission through the use of syringes obtained OR=20.091, this meant that a good attitudes toward HIV/AIDS transmission through the use of syringes allowed respondents to have positive drop-out 20.091 times compared to bad attitudes. There was a correlation between respondents' attitudes toward HIV/AIDS transmission through the use of syringes and the type of drop-out among participants of Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) (p-value=0.000).