Perceived benefits of care integration included easier access to mental health services, enhanced overall well-being, and improved HIV care engagement. In the qualitative interviews, participants discussed their support for potential integration strategies such as training HIV providers to prescribe antidepressants, closer in-clinic proximity of HIV and mental health providers, and use of patient navigators to help patients access mental health care and remind them of appointments. Thirty-six percent (36%) desired a higher level of integration than what they perceived was currently available in their clinic setting, 51% believed their clinic was already optimally integrated, and 13% preferred less integration. Most participants (70%) agreed that integration of HIV and mental health services was beneficial to them. We conducted a mixed-methods study consisting of surveys ( N = 100) and qualitative in-depth interviews ( n = 15) with YB-GBMSM recruited from two Ryan White-funded HIV clinics in Atlanta, Georgia. Clinic-level interventions to integrate HIV and mental health services have been proposed however, patient perspectives on such care models are often lacking. Optimization of mental health service use is critical to HIV care engagement among young Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (YB-GBMSM).
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