HIV/AIDS

Research results from University of California update knowledge of HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, May 18th, 2009

"The purpose of this study was to estimate the relative contributions of trauma, chronic stress burden, depression, anxiety, social support, and social undermining in predicting alcohol and drug abuse, and whether ethnicity moderated these relationships. A multi-ethnic sample of 288 HIV-positive and HIV-negative women was recruited," investigators in the United States report.

"Multiple group path analysis indicated that greater drug dependence was associated with being HIV+, more depression, and higher chronic burden. Trauma was related only to anxiety. Also, greater alcohol dependence was associated with more depression and more social undermining, and these effects...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2009-05-18)

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