ArticleGlobal health action2018
Harmful alcohol drinking among HIV-positive people in Nepal: an overlooked threat to anti-retroviral therapy adherence and health-related quality of life.
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Effectiveness of the Nursing Counseling to the Change of Behavior of Alcohol Consumption in Patients Receiving HAART
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Comorbidities, health-related quality of life and its associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS in Gandaki Province of Nepal.BMC public health · 2026Article
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- Quality of life and associated factors among people receiving second-line anti-retroviral therapy in Johannesburg, South Africa.BMC infectious diseases · 2022Article
- Heavy Alcohol Use Among Women and Men Living With HIV in Uganda, Russia, and the United States.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2021Article
- An update on drug-drug interactions between antiretroviral therapies and drugs of abuse in HIV systems.Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology · 2020Review
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Abstract
backgroundPeople living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) often suffer from alcohol-use disorders resulting in their poor health and treatment outcomes. Little is known about the association of harmful alcohol drinking with their adherence to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) and health-related quality of life (QOL) in low-resource settings.
objectiveThis study aimed to investigate associations between harmful alcohol drinking, adherence to ART and health-related QOL in HIV-positive people, stratified by gender, in Nepal.
methodsWe conducted a cross-sectional study of 682 HIV-positive people on ART to measure their self-reported harmful alcohol drinking and non-adherence to ART in the previous month of data collection. We also measured health-related QOL using a WHOQOL-HIV BREF scale. The association between harmful alcohol drinking and non-adherence to ART was examined using multiple logistic regressions. Additionally, multiple linear regressions examined association between harmful alcohol drinking and QOL.
resultsHarmful alcohol drinking was associated with non-adherence to ART among men (AOR: 2.48, 95% CI: 1.50, 4.11, p < 0.001) and women (AOR: 2.52, 95% CI: 1.32, 4.80, p = 0.005). Men were more likely to have lower score for the psychological (β = -0.55, p = 0.021) and level of independence (β = -0.68, p = 0.018) domains when they had harmful alcohol drinking. Moreover, women were more likely to have lower scores for the physical (β = -1.01, p = 0.015), social relations (β = -0.82, p = 0.033), environmental (β = -0.88, p = 0.011), and spiritual (β = -1.30, p = 0.005) domains of QOL when they had harmful alcohol drinking.
conclusionsHarmful alcohol drinking had a negative association with ART adherence and QOL in both HIV-positive men and women in Nepal. Screening for alcohol-use disorders and community-based counseling services should be provided while delivering ART services to improve treatment adherence and QOL.
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