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Assessing psychological symptom networks related to HIV-positive duration among people living with HIV: a network analysis.

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Zhu, Z; Guo, M; Dong, T; Han, S; Hu, Y; Wu, B
Published in: AIDS care
June 2022

This study aims to explore and visualize relationships among multiple psychological symptoms among people living with HIV (PLWH) with different HIV-positive durations and to compare centrality indices and densities of psychological symptom networks. We used subsets of data collected from five designated HIV/AIDS hospitals in China. Networks were constructed among 16 psychological symptoms. Centrality properties, including strength and closeness, were adopted to describe relationships among symptoms. The results showed that PLWH with longer HIV-positive durations had denser emotional networks, which indicated that they had more emotional neuroticism than their newly diagnosed counterparts. Sadness, self-abasement, and self-loathing were the most central psychological symptoms across different HIV-positive durations. Our study suggests the need to provide psychosocial support services targeting PLWH according to changing symptom severity and neuroticism trajectories. Interventions should focus on increasing empathy for PLWH and enhancing the ability to consider the situation from different perspectives to avoid the development of neuroticism in long-term survivors.

Duke Scholars

Published In

AIDS care

DOI

EISSN

1360-0451

ISSN

0954-0121

Publication Date

June 2022

Volume

34

Issue

6

Start / End Page

725 / 733

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Public Health
  • Humans
  • HIV Seropositivity
  • HIV Infections
  • Empathy
  • China
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 4206 Public health
 

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Zhu, Z., Guo, M., Dong, T., Han, S., Hu, Y., & Wu, B. (2022). Assessing psychological symptom networks related to HIV-positive duration among people living with HIV: a network analysis. AIDS Care, 34(6), 725–733. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2021.1929815
Zhu, Zheng, Mengdi Guo, Tingyue Dong, Shuyu Han, Yan Hu, and Bei Wu. “Assessing psychological symptom networks related to HIV-positive duration among people living with HIV: a network analysis.AIDS Care 34, no. 6 (June 2022): 725–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2021.1929815.
Zhu, Zheng, et al. “Assessing psychological symptom networks related to HIV-positive duration among people living with HIV: a network analysis.AIDS Care, vol. 34, no. 6, June 2022, pp. 725–33. Epmc, doi:10.1080/09540121.2021.1929815.

Published In

AIDS care

DOI

EISSN

1360-0451

ISSN

0954-0121

Publication Date

June 2022

Volume

34

Issue

6

Start / End Page

725 / 733

Related Subject Headings

  • Surveys and Questionnaires
  • Public Health
  • Humans
  • HIV Seropositivity
  • HIV Infections
  • Empathy
  • China
  • 5203 Clinical and health psychology
  • 4410 Sociology
  • 4206 Public health