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Does Diagnosis Make a Difference? Estimating the Impact of an HIV Medication Adherence Intervention for Persons with
Natasha Dalseth1, Regina Szucs Reed2, Michael Hennessy3
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University, Episcopal Campus, 100 E Lehigh Ave MAB 305, Philadelphia, PA, 19125, USA. natasha.dalseth@tuhs.temple.edu.
Abstract:
The heightened risk of persons with serious mental illness to contract and transmit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a public health problem. Here we evaluate the interaction between psychiatric diagnosis and response to a community based-intervention targeted at treatment adherence in 236 HIV+ persons with co-occurring mental illness. To examine differential effectiveness of the intervention for categories of patient diagnosis, we reanalyzed the data after stratifying participants into two diagnostic groups: (1) participants with depressive disorders without psychosis and (2) participants with a psychotic or bipolar disorder. Outcomes included viral load and mental health quality of life (SF-12 Mental Health). We found that HIV+ persons with non-psychotic depressive disorders demonstrated a larger decrease in HIV viral load and more improvement in measures of mental health quality of life when compared to HIV+ persons with psychotic and bipolar disorders. We suggest that successful adherence interventions should be informed by psychiatric symptomatology.
Trial Registration:
clinicaltrials.gov 29 identifier NCT00264823.
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