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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Simegnew, Dawit
• Di, Qian
• Turi, Ebisa
• Fekadu, Ginenus
• Feyisa, Bikila Regassa
• Temesgen, Sidise
• Bikila, Haile
• Bayisa, Lami
• Shibiru, Tesfaye
• Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku
• Seidu, Abdul-Aziz

Titel

Psychoactive substance uses among people living with HIV/AIDS in Western Ethiopia: a multi-centered facility-based cross-sectional study

Ist Teil von

• Journal of substance use, 2024-01, Vol.ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print), p.1-8

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Substance use is very prevalent among HIV-infected people. We examined psychoactive substance use and tobacco smoking among people living with HIV/AIDS in West Ethiopia. An institutional-based cross-sectional study was conducted. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regressions were done to identify the factors associated with alcohol intake, current smoking, and khat use. The variables found significant with a p-value < .2 at bivariable were treated as candidates for the multivariable regression model. P-values of < .05 and 95% CI level were used as statistically significant differences for the final models. A total of 418 participants were included in the study, making the response rate 88%. About 152 (36.4%) were khat chewers (36.4, 95%CI: 31.6-40.9) and 175 (41.9%) with 95% CI (37.6-46.4) of them are current smokers. Lack of formal education (AOR = 3.82, 95% CI: 1.36, 10.67), strong social support (AOR = 0.27; 95% CI: 0.12, 0.59), urban resident (AOR = 3.52, 95%CI: 1.32, 9.34), and being single (AOR = 11.84; 95% CI: 2.4, 8.57) were found to be significantly associated with psychoactive substance use among people living with HIV/AIDS. This study found that there are higher psycho-active substance users among people infected with HIV compared to the national data level of the same group of population.