MMP 2014 Summary of Changes to Questionnaire

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Medical Monitoring Project (MMP) Summary of Changes to Questionnaire

Changes to 2014 Interview questionnaire:

Changes to the 2014 questionnaire relative to the 2013 questionnaire can also be seen in the document “MMP 2014 interview v10.0.2 redlined.docx.”

Type of change	Module	Question #	Justification	Burden	Notes
Deletion	Pneumocystis pneumonia diagnosis	C9	Already collected in Medical Record Abstraction; self-report is of questionable validity	Reduce	1 question
Deletion	STD testing	C10a-C10g	Already collected in Medical Record Abstraction; self-report is of questionable validity	Reduce	7 questions
Deletion	STD diagnoses	C11a-C11k	Already collected in Medical Record Abstraction; self-report is of questionable validity	Reduce	11 questions
Deletion	Place of STD testing or diagnosis	C12	Not needed if STD testing and diagnosis information is not captured in the interview	Reduce	1 question
Addition	Use of Tivicay (dolutegravir)	T5	New FDA-approved antiretroviral therapy medication	Add	1 question
Deletion	Sexual Behavior (2013 version)		Complicated skip patterns leads to errors in programming and analytic variable creation, and asking aggregate information about sexual behavior leads to recall bias	Reduce	146 questions
Addition	Sexual Behavior (2014 version)		Proposed method is more straightforward and will lessen errors and bias associated with prior cycle’s sexual behavior section	Add	210 questions