HIV Self-Sampling Feasibility Study Participant Characteristics

Characteristics of 62 participants in a study evaluating home-based blood self-sampling for HIV-1 viral load monitoring. The dataset includes participant demographics and questionnaire results on device usability, collected between September 2024 and March 2025 by Kyra F. Mendes de Leon. It compares self-sampled blood using the TassoPlus device to conventional clinical sampling.

Use Cases

• Assessing the feasibility of home-based blood self-sampling based on participant return rates and sample quality metrics.
• Evaluating user acceptance of a medical device based on questionnaire responses about usability and interest.
• Comparing the reliability of self-sampled versus clinically-drawn blood for viral load measurement.
• Analyzing demographic factors of participants willing to engage in remote healthcare monitoring.

Strengths

• Includes data from 62 participants with a median age of 56.
• Compares results from self-sampled and conventional blood draws for HIV-RNA.
• Contains user-friendliness questionnaire results from participants.

Limitations

• Dataset size is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Kyra F. Mendes de Leon via figshare.

Collection Method

Data collected from participants recruited at an outpatient clinic between September 2024 and March 2025.

Time Range

September 2024 to March 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 17:25:09.