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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Relationships Among Adherence and Physical and Mental Health Among Women Living with HIV in Rural India
- Ist Teil von
- AIDS and behavior, 2018-03, Vol.22 (3), p.867-876
- Ort / Verlag
- New York: Springer US
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2018
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- SpringerLink Journals
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- We conducted a cross-sectional examination of the physical and psychological factors related to ART adherence among a sample of 400 women living with HIV/AIDS in rural India. Interviewer-administered measures assessed adherence, internalized stigma, depressive symptoms, quality of life, food insecurity, health history and sociodemographic information. CD4 counts were measured using blood collected at screening. Findings revealed that adherence to ART was generally low, with 94% of women taking 50% or less of prescribed medication in past month. Multivariate analyses showed a non-linear association between numbers of self-reported opportunistic infections (OIs) in past 6 months (p = 0.016) and adherence, with adherence decreasing with each additional OI for 0–5 OIs. For those reporting more than 5 OIs, the association reversed direction, with increasing OIs beyond 5 associated with greater adherence.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 1090-7165eISSN: 1573-3254DOI: 10.1007/s10461-016-1631-3Titel-ID: cdi_pubmedcentral_primary_oai_pubmedcentral_nih_gov_5476510
- Format
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- Schlagworte
- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, Adhesion, Adult, AIDS, Anti-Retroviral Agents - therapeutic use, Antiretroviral therapy, CD4 antigen, CD4 Lymphocyte Count, Cross-Sectional Studies, Depression - epidemiology, Depression - psychology, Female, Food quality, Food security, Food Supply, Health Psychology, Health Status, HIV, HIV Infections - drug therapy, HIV Infections - epidemiology, HIV Infections - psychology, Human immunodeficiency virus, Humans, India, Infectious Diseases, Male, Medication Adherence, Medicine, Medicine & Public Health, Mental depression, Mental disorders, Mental Health, Middle Aged, Nonlinear analysis, Original Paper, Psychological aspects, Psychological factors, Public Health, Quality of life, Quality of Life - psychology, Rural areas, Rural Population, Social Stigma, Sociodemographics, Symptoms, Tests, Women, Womens health