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Table 1 Main themes from topic list used during interviews with 20 (previously) HCV-infected MSM in the Amsterdam area from January 2011 to December 2012

From: Changing the odds: motives for and barriers to reducing HCV-related sexual risk behaviour among HIV-infected MSM previously infected with HCV

Circumstances of HCV diagnosis

- Knowledge about HCV prior to diagnosis

- Sexual behaviour prior to diagnosis

- Feelings about HCV diagnosis

HCV infection

- Current HCV status

- Perception of HCV since diagnosis

- Experiences with treatment of HCV

- Knowledge about reinfection

Sexual behaviour

- Current sexual behaviour

- Sexual behaviour between diagnosis and treatment

- Sexual behaviour during HCV treatment

- Sexual behaviour after HCV treatment

Risk reduction strategies

- Risk reduction strategies prior to HCV infection

- Risk reduction strategies after HCV infection

- Influences of HCV infection on risk reduction

- Perception of HCV risk in future

- Perception of self-efficacy of risk reduction