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Mortality, Health, and Substance Abuse by Religious Attendance Among HIV Infected Patients from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study
- Source :
- AIDS and Behavior. 25:653-660
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020.
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Abstract
- Religion and spirituality have been associated with higher survival and improved biological markers among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWH). Prior results have largely been among small cohort studies. We examined the association using a larger sample and longitudinal data from the Veterans Aging Cohort Study (VACS) years 2002–2012 (n = 3,685). Attending services at least monthly was associated with higher social support (80% vs 75%, p = 0.002), less unhealthy alcohol use (35% vs 39%, p = 0.006), less marijuana use in the past year (23% vs 32%, p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
030505 public health
Social Psychology
business.industry
Public health
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Attendance
medicine.disease
Substance abuse
03 medical and health sciences
Social support
Health psychology
0302 clinical medicine
Infectious Diseases
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
0305 other medical science
business
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Demography
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15733254 and 10907165
- Volume :
- 25
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- AIDS and Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........42f2f2280fbfb198259813f78d7eddfb