Open AccessDepression and its associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS: Can it affect their quality of life?
Author(s) -
Namita Deshmukh,
Avinash Borkar,
Jyotsna S Deshmukh
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/2249-4863.222016
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , affect (linguistics) , quality of life (healthcare) , anxiety , cross sectional study , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , social support , psychiatry , immunology , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , nursing , pathology , economics , psychotherapist , macroeconomics
Depression, being the most common neuropsychiatric complication of HIV, is also associated with increased health-care utilization, decreased quality of life (QOL), and poor adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). Depression is a multidimensional disorder affected by a variety of biological, psychological, and social determinants and this relation becomes more complicated in HIV patients. The current study therefore aimed to investigate the sociodemographic and clinical determinants of depression and assess difference in the QOL of HIV patients not having depression and those suffering from depression.