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- Title
Assessment of somatic and affective-cognitive symptoms of people living with HIV/AIDS.
- Authors
Reis, Renata Karina; De Castro Castrighini, Carolina; Santos Melo, Elizabete; De Jesus, Giselle Juliana; Luz Queiroz, Artur Acelino Francisco
- Abstract
Objective: To analyze the somatic and affective-cognitive symptoms of depression according to the sex of people living with HIV/AIDS. Methods: Analytic study developed at specialized care services in Ribeirão Preto-SP, including a sample of 331 participants. To collect the data, a sociodemographic characterization tool and Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) were used. Results: Among the interviewees, 50.4% were male, 52.1% of whom in the age range between 20 and 35 years. Higher education (p=0.001) and lower income (<0.001) were found for the women and more comorbidities (p=0.004) for the men. It was identified that the women presented higher mean depression scores in the somatic (p<0.001) as well as in the affective/cognitive domains (p<0.001). Conclusion: These study results appoint that the women present higher depressive symptom scores than the man, in the somatic as well as in the affective/cognitive domains of the BDI subscales.
- Subjects
COGNITION disorders diagnosis; DIAGNOSIS of mental depression; HIV infections; INTERVIEWING; PSYCHOLOGICAL tests; SEX distribution; T-test (Statistics); CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; MANN Whitney U Test; SYMPTOMS
- Publication
Acta Paulista de Enfermagem, 2017, Vol 30, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0103-2100
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1982-0194201700009