1. Assessing the interaction between depressive symptoms and alcohol use prior to antiretroviral therapy on viral suppression among people living with HIV in Rural Uganda
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Foley, Jacklyn D, Sheinfil, Alan, Woolf-King, Sarah E, Fatch, Robin, Emenyonu, Nneka I, Muyindike, Winnie R, Kekibiina, Allen, Ngabirano, Christine, Samet, Jeffrey H, Cheng, Debbie M, and Hahn, Judith A
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Public Health ,Health Sciences ,Pediatric ,Mental Health ,Depression ,Prevention ,Infectious Diseases ,Brain Disorders ,Alcoholism ,Alcohol Use and Health ,Underage Drinking ,Clinical Research ,HIV/AIDS ,Substance Misuse ,Infection ,Good Health and Well Being ,Alcohol Drinking ,Anti-HIV Agents ,Anti-Retroviral Agents ,HIV Infections ,Humans ,Medication Adherence ,Uganda ,Depressive symptoms ,hazardous alcohol use ,antiretroviral therapy ,Public Health and Health Services ,Psychology ,Public health ,Sociology ,Clinical and health psychology - Abstract
Although there is evidence of individual associations between depressive symptoms and hazardous alcohol use with suboptimal antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence among people living with HIV (PLWH), few studies have established how the two risk factors may interact to predict viral suppression. We conducted secondary data analyses with two cohorts of Ugandan PLWH (N = 657) to investigate the hypothesized interaction between depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale) and hazardous alcohol use (Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test -Consumption and/or Phosphatidylethanol biomarker) prior to ART initiation with viral suppression (
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- 2020