Open AccessDepression and Survival in a 17-Year Longitudinal Study of People With HIV: Moderating Effects of Race and Education
Author(s) -
Gail Ironson,
Calvin Fitch,
Rick Stuetzle
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
psychosomatic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.62
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1534-7796
pISSN - 0033-3174
DOI - 10.1097/psy.0000000000000488
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , depression (economics) , beck depression inventory , confidence interval , demography , medicine , psychological intervention , proportional hazards model , population , gerontology , coping (psychology) , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , sociology , economics , macroeconomics , anxiety
The prevalence of clinically significant depressive symptoms is three times higher in people living with HIV than in the general population. Although studies have shown that depression predicts worse course with HIV, few have investigated its relationship with mortality, and none have had a 17-year follow-up period and been conducted entirely during the time since the advent of protease inhibitors.