Cargando…
Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Alexithymia is common and causes serious harm to people living with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, this study aimed to examine its prevalence and associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in two designated AIDS medical institution...
Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , , , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10262468/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37308930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04932-4 |
_version_ | 1785058060550537216 |
---|---|
author | Liu, Huan Yang, Yisi Tian, Yingnan Gao, Shanshan Ma, Yunxia Wang, Yuxuan Xin, Ling Luo, Nana Wang, Xinyu Meng, Nan Zhuge, Ruiqian Wang, Qunkai Wu, Qunhong Liu, Baohua |
author_facet | Liu, Huan Yang, Yisi Tian, Yingnan Gao, Shanshan Ma, Yunxia Wang, Yuxuan Xin, Ling Luo, Nana Wang, Xinyu Meng, Nan Zhuge, Ruiqian Wang, Qunkai Wu, Qunhong Liu, Baohua |
author_sort | Liu, Huan |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Alexithymia is common and causes serious harm to people living with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, this study aimed to examine its prevalence and associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in two designated AIDS medical institutions in Harbin, China between January and December 2019. In total, 767 participants completed the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness short-form, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the HIV Treatment Regimen Fatigue Scale, and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test‐Consumption. The participants responded to several questions regarding their demographic characteristics, life satisfaction, disease-related economic burden, and their antiretroviral therapy (ART) side effects. Multivariate logistic regression assessed the relationship between alexithymia and associated factors. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for OR were calculated. RESULTS: Approximately 36.1% of the participants were classified as having alexithymia. After adjusted age and education, the logistic regression model indicated that disease-related economic burden (OR = 1.477, 95% CI = 1.155–1.888), ART side effects (OR = 1.249, 95% CI = 1.001–1.559), loneliness (OR = 1.166, 95% CI = 1.101–1.236), and HIV treatment regimen fatigue (OR = 1.028, 95% CI = 1.017–1.039) were positively associated with alexithymia. CONCLUSIONS: The mental health problems of people living with HIV/AIDS are essential to understand and deserve attention. Disease-related economic burdens are major associated factors. Multiple actors should provide better services and guarantees for patients. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10262468 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-102624682023-06-15 Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study Liu, Huan Yang, Yisi Tian, Yingnan Gao, Shanshan Ma, Yunxia Wang, Yuxuan Xin, Ling Luo, Nana Wang, Xinyu Meng, Nan Zhuge, Ruiqian Wang, Qunkai Wu, Qunhong Liu, Baohua BMC Psychiatry Research BACKGROUND: Alexithymia is common and causes serious harm to people living with HIV/AIDS. Therefore, this study aimed to examine its prevalence and associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted in two designated AIDS medical institutions in Harbin, China between January and December 2019. In total, 767 participants completed the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the University of California Los Angeles Loneliness short-form, the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, the HIV Treatment Regimen Fatigue Scale, and the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test‐Consumption. The participants responded to several questions regarding their demographic characteristics, life satisfaction, disease-related economic burden, and their antiretroviral therapy (ART) side effects. Multivariate logistic regression assessed the relationship between alexithymia and associated factors. Odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for OR were calculated. RESULTS: Approximately 36.1% of the participants were classified as having alexithymia. After adjusted age and education, the logistic regression model indicated that disease-related economic burden (OR = 1.477, 95% CI = 1.155–1.888), ART side effects (OR = 1.249, 95% CI = 1.001–1.559), loneliness (OR = 1.166, 95% CI = 1.101–1.236), and HIV treatment regimen fatigue (OR = 1.028, 95% CI = 1.017–1.039) were positively associated with alexithymia. CONCLUSIONS: The mental health problems of people living with HIV/AIDS are essential to understand and deserve attention. Disease-related economic burdens are major associated factors. Multiple actors should provide better services and guarantees for patients. BioMed Central 2023-06-13 /pmc/articles/PMC10262468/ /pubmed/37308930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04932-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Liu, Huan Yang, Yisi Tian, Yingnan Gao, Shanshan Ma, Yunxia Wang, Yuxuan Xin, Ling Luo, Nana Wang, Xinyu Meng, Nan Zhuge, Ruiqian Wang, Qunkai Wu, Qunhong Liu, Baohua Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study |
title | Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with HIV/AIDS in China: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | prevalence and associated factors of alexithymia among people living with hiv/aids in china: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10262468/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37308930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-023-04932-4 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT liuhuan prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT yangyisi prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT tianyingnan prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT gaoshanshan prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT mayunxia prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT wangyuxuan prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT xinling prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT luonana prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT wangxinyu prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT mengnan prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT zhugeruiqian prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT wangqunkai prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT wuqunhong prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy AT liubaohua prevalenceandassociatedfactorsofalexithymiaamongpeoplelivingwithhivaidsinchinaacrosssectionalstudy |