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- Title
Motivos, apoyo social y comportamientos de adhesión en personas con VIH: modelamiento con ecuaciones estructurales.
- Authors
Ramírez, Mónica Teresa González; López, Julio Alfonso Piña
- Abstract
A cross-sectional study was carried out in order to assess the influence of a set of psychological and social variables on adherence behaviors in a sample of 69 persons with HIV, using a structural equations model. The final model revealed a strong influence of motives and social support on adherence behaviors, both explaining 49% of the total variance; also, an effect of adherence behaviors on viral load levels and of this one on T CD4+ cell counts were observed. The current study contributes to understand variables underlying adherence behaviors in a sample of persons with HIV, and therefore intervention programs directed to promote and/or to maintain these behaviors must to consider the specific weight of some psychological and social variables along the behavioral continuum.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive persons; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; PATIENT compliance; MOTIVATION testing; BEHAVIORAL research; SOCIAL support; PSYCHOMETRICS
- Publication
Universitas Psychologica, 2011, Vol 10, Issue 2, p399
- ISSN
1657-9267
- Publication type
Article