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Sleep Disturbance is Associated with Missing PrEP Doses Among Young Black Sexual Minority Men in The N2 study

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PrEP uptake and adherence among young Black sexual minority men (YBSMM), has been sub-optimal. Multiple studies identified sleep as an important determinant of medication adherence, although it has not been examined with regard to PrEP among YBSMM. This study utilized data collected from HIV-negative cisgender YBSMM in the Neighborhoods and Networks (N2) study in Chicago using PrEP (N = 70). Sleep quality was measured using the PHQ-9 and PrEP adherence questions were adapted from Reynolds et al., 2004. Bivariate and multivariable regression analyses were used to estimate associations between sleep and missing PrEP doses, controlling for relevant demographic and behavioral factors. YBSMM who reported sleep disturbance a moderate amount of time (aOR 7.59 [1.05 to 54.57]) were more likely to miss taking PrEP because they had too many pills to take. Sleep quality is an overlooked determinant of medication adherence, and may negatively impact YBSMM’s ability to consistently take PrEP.

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The data underlying the results presented in the study are available upon request from Jade Pagkas-Bather: jpagkasbather@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.

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All data were analyzed using Stata 15, College Station, Texas.

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We would like to thank the participants of the N2 study, and the NIH for funding this work (R01MH112406 PIs Duncan and Schneider).

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  1. Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases & Global Health, The University of Chicago, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, 5065, 60637, Chicago, MC, Illinois, United States

    Jade Pagkas-Bather, Yen-Tyng Chen, Natascha Del Vecchio & John A. Schneider

  2. Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Jade Pagkas-Bather, Yen-Tyng Chen, Natascha Del Vecchio, Rebecca Eavou & John A. Schneider

  3. Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States

    Dustin T. Duncan & Justin Knox

  4. Department of Public Health, William Paterson University of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, United States

    Yen-Tyng Chen

  5. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    John Cursio & John A. Schneider

  6. The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Kenneth H. Mayer

  7. Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Kenneth H. Mayer

  8. Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    Kenneth H. Mayer

  9. Survey Lab, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Hillary Hanson

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JPB designed the study, wrote the manuscript, and did some of the statistical analysis. JC did most of the statistical analysis. DTD, YC, NDV, KHM, JK, HH, RE, and JAS provided input and edits to the manuscript.

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Pagkas-Bather, J., Duncan, D.T., Chen, YT. et al. Sleep Disturbance is Associated with Missing PrEP Doses Among Young Black Sexual Minority Men in The N2 study. AIDS Behav 26, 3827–3833 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03711-8

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