Open AccessThe syndemic effect of HIV/HCV co-infection and mental health disorders on acute care hospitalization rate among people living with HIV/AIDS: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Author(s) -
Martin St-Jean,
Hiwot M. Tafessu,
Kalysha Closson,
Thomas L. Patterson,
M. Ruth Lavergne,
Julius Elefante,
Lianping Ti,
Mark Hull,
Robert S. Hogg,
Rolando Barrios,
Jean Shoveller,
Julio S. G. Montaner,
Viviane D. Lima
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.64
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1920-7476
pISSN - 0008-4263
DOI - 10.17269/s41997-019-00253-w
Subject(s) - syndemic , medicine , retrospective cohort study , cohort study , cohort , confidence interval , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , immunology
Our primary objective was to examine the syndemic effect of HIV/HCV co-infection and mental health disorders (MHD) on the acute care hospitalization rate among people living with HIV (PLW-HIV) in British Columbia, Canada. Secondarily, we aimed to characterize the longitudinal trends in the aforementioned rate, while controlling for the effect of several factors.