ArticleAIDS and behavior2017
Psychosocial and Service Use Correlates of Health-Related Quality of Life Among a Vulnerable Population Living with HIV/AIDS.
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- Sleep Disturbance Mediates the Associations Between HIV Stigma and Mental and Physical Health Among Black Adults with HIV.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2025Article
- Quality of Life and Associated Factors of HIV Patients Under Treatment with First Line Regimens in Public Hospitals in Amhara Region, North-West Ethiopia.Patient preference and adherence · 2023Article
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- Does Posttraumatic Growth Buffer the Association Between Death Anxiety and Quality of Life Among People living with HIV/AIDS?Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings · 2021Article
- Correlates of health-related quality of life among adults receiving combination antiretroviral therapy in coastal Kenya.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
- Psychotropic and Opioid-Based Medication Use among Economically Disadvantaged African-American Older Adults.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Characterizing latent classes of social support among persons who inject drugs.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Depression, social support, and stigma as predictors of quality of life over time: results from an Asha-based HIV/AIDS intervention in India.AIDS care · 2019Article
- Health-related quality of life assessment among people living with HIV in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: a cross-sectional study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- The Stepped Care Intervention to Suppress Viral Load in Youth Living With HIV: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Trajectories of Health-Related Quality of Life and Perceived Social Support Among People Living With HIV Undergoing Antiretroviral Treatment: Does Gender Matter?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender.Archives of women's mental health · 2018Article
- A Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measure for Use in Patients with HIV: A Validation Study.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2017Article
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Abstract
Among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV), health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important clinical metric of perceived well-being. Baseline data from the BEACON study (N = 383) were used to examine relationships between HRQOL and negative social support, HIV-related stigma, viral suppression, and physical and mental health service use among a vulnerable population of low-income, urban PLHIV who currently or formerly used substances, and were primarily African American. Factor analyses and structural equation modeling indicated that increases in negative social support, stigma, mental health care visits and HIV physician visits were associated with lower HRQOL, while viral suppression was associated with greater HRQOL. The association between negative social support and HRQOL suggests the importance of intervening at the dyad or network levels to shape the type of social support being provided to PLHIV. HIV-related stigma is another negative social factor that is prevalent in this sample and could be addressed by intervention. Results indicate that greater mental and physical health service use can be used to identify individuals with lower HRQOL. Therefore, findings increase an understanding of HRQOL in this understudied population and have implications for designing interventions to improve HRQOL among PLHIV.
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