HIV test results. Thus, enrollment was restricted to
patients who had been offered an HIV test by their
health care provider during their visit to the UCC as a
consequence of a concurrent study design.27 Patients for
whom English was a second language were eligible only
if they possessed reading skills in English, enabling an
assessment of their health literacy with the instrument
used in this study.
A $20 cash payment was provided to all participants.
The study was approved by the Institutional Review
Boards of Emory University and the CDC and by the
Grady Memorial Hospital Research Oversight Committee