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Distress, depression and anxiety among persons seeking HIV testing.
- Source :
- AIDS Care; Mar2017, Vol. 29 Issue 3, p280-284, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- We investigated psychological distress and symptoms of depression and anxiety among 485 South Africans seeking HIV testing. The mean scores of the sample were 45.78 (SD = 16.81) on the Hopkins Symptom Checklist; 15.8 (SD = 12.4) on the Beck Depression Inventory and 12.44 (SD = 13.00) on the Beck Anxiety Inventory, which fell in the elevated, mild and low ranges on these instruments, respectively. For more than a third of participants, symptoms of depression and clinically significant distress were at least moderate and in some cases severe, indicating that they may have benefitted from psychological help. We make the case that symptoms of depression and distress are common among persons seeking HIV testing and are therefore not a consequence of an HIV-positive test result. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- DIAGNOSIS of HIV infections
HIV infections & psychology
MEDICAL screening
ANXIETY
CONFIDENCE intervals
STATISTICAL correlation
MENTAL depression
MEDICAL cooperation
REFERENCE values
RESEARCH
RESEARCH evaluation
RESEARCH funding
STATISTICAL sampling
PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
T-test (Statistics)
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09540121
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AIDS Care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 120932023
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09540121.2016.1259453