“A Double Stress”: The Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda

Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for people living with HIV are poorly understood, especially in low-income settings. We conducted qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews among people living with HIV (n = 16) and health workers (n = 10) in rural Rakai, southcentral Uganda. Data...

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Autores principales: West, N. S., Ddaaki, W., Nakyanjo, N., Isabirye, D., Nakubulwa, R., Nalugoda, F., Kagaayi, J., Kennedy, C. E.
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34292428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03379-6
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author West, N. S.
Ddaaki, W.
Nakyanjo, N.
Isabirye, D.
Nakubulwa, R.
Nalugoda, F.
Kagaayi, J.
Kennedy, C. E.
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description Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for people living with HIV are poorly understood, especially in low-income settings. We conducted qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews among people living with HIV (n = 16) and health workers (n = 10) in rural Rakai, southcentral Uganda. Data were analyzed thematically. We found mental stress during COVID-19 was compounded by worry about antiretroviral therapy (ART) access, distress over inadvertent disclosure of HIV status, fear that coronavirus infection would have more severe outcomes for immunocompromised individuals, and exacerbated poverty and economic stress. Mental health support for people living with HIV deserves greater attention during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
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spelling pubmed-82954562021-07-22 “A Double Stress”: The Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda West, N. S. Ddaaki, W. Nakyanjo, N. Isabirye, D. Nakubulwa, R. Nalugoda, F. Kagaayi, J. Kennedy, C. E. AIDS Behav Original Paper Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic for people living with HIV are poorly understood, especially in low-income settings. We conducted qualitative semi-structured in-depth interviews among people living with HIV (n = 16) and health workers (n = 10) in rural Rakai, southcentral Uganda. Data were analyzed thematically. We found mental stress during COVID-19 was compounded by worry about antiretroviral therapy (ART) access, distress over inadvertent disclosure of HIV status, fear that coronavirus infection would have more severe outcomes for immunocompromised individuals, and exacerbated poverty and economic stress. Mental health support for people living with HIV deserves greater attention during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Springer US 2021-07-22 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8295456/ /pubmed/34292428 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-021-03379-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Kagaayi, J.
Kennedy, C. E.
“A Double Stress”: The Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Among People Living with HIV in Rakai, Uganda
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