{"doi":"10.1111/acer.15063","title":"Feasibility of remote self‐collection of dried blood spots, hair, and nails among people with <scp>HIV</scp> with hazardous alcohol use","abstract":"BACKGROUND: The use of biomarkers in behavioral HIV research can help to address limitations of self-reported data. The COVID-19 pandemic forced many researchers to transition from standard in-person data collection to remote data collection. We present data on the feasibility of remote self-collection of dried blood spots (DBS), hair, and nails for the objective assessment of alcohol use, antiretroviral therapy adherence, and stress in a sample of people with HIV (PWH) who are hazardous drinkers. METHODS: Standardized operating procedures for remote self-collection of DBS, hair, and nails were developed for an ongoing pilot study of a transdiagnostic alcohol intervention for PWH. Prior to each study appointment, participants were mailed a kit containing materials for self-collection, instructions, a video link demonstrating the collection process, and a prepaid envelope for returning samples. RESULTS: A total of 133 remote study visits were completed. For DBS and nail collection at baseline, 87.5% and 83.3% of samples, respectively, were received by the research laboratory, of which 100% of samples were processed. Although hair samples were intended to be analyzed, most of the samples (77.7%) were insufficient or the scalp end of the hair was not marked. We, therefore, decided that hair collection was not feasible in the framework of this study. CONCLUSION: An increase in remote self-collection of biospecimens may significantly advance the field of HIV-related research, permitting the collection of specimens without resource-intensive laboratory personnel and facilities. Further research is needed on the factors that impeded participants' ability to complete remote biospecimen collection.","journal":"Alcohol Clinical and Experimental Research","year":2023,"id":359179,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":10,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9475,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1110212,"name":"Lyric K. Tully","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1109814,"name":"Veronica M. Bucci","orcid":"0009-0003-2066-3848","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1110213,"name":"McKenna E. Walsh","orcid":null,"position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":763359,"name":"Stephen A. Maisto","orcid":"0000-0001-5470-102X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":416059,"name":"Judith A. Hahn","orcid":"0000-0002-2697-8264","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":361460,"name":"Kestutis Bendinskas","orcid":"0000-0002-0275-520X","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":361457,"name":"Brooks B. Gump","orcid":"0000-0001-5906-6651","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":754947,"name":"Sarah E. Woolf‐King","orcid":"0000-0002-5612-1114","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":939102,"name":"Madison K. Firkey","orcid":"0000-0002-9513-2289","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":64,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:13:52.889556Z","pmid":"36949025","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}