Pain in Clients Attending a South African Voluntary Counseling and Testing Center Was Frequent and Extensive But Did Not Depend on HIV Status
| Autor: | Erica Lazarus, Glenda Gray, Antonia L. Wadley, Duncan Mitchell, Peter R. Kamerman |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Adult
Counseling Male medicine.medical_specialty Voluntary counseling and testing Pain HIV Infections 030312 virology Anxiety 03 medical and health sciences South Africa Risk Factors Internal medicine Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire Humans Pharmacology (medical) Depression (differential diagnoses) 0303 health sciences Univariate analysis business.industry Depression virus diseases Female sex Confidence interval Infectious Diseases Logistic Models Regression Analysis Female Hiv status medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999). 83(2) |
| ISSN: | 1944-7884 |
| Popis: | Background The frequency of pain is reported to be high in people living with HIV, but valid comparisons between people living with HIV and HIV-negative cohorts are rare. We investigated whether HIV infection influenced frequency and characteristics of pain in adults undergoing voluntary testing for HIV. Setting Participants were recruited from an HIV voluntary counseling and testing center at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa. Methods Pain was assessed using the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire. Depressive and anxiety symptomatology was determined using the Hopkins Symptom checklist-25. We then stratified by HIV status. Results Data from 535 black South Africans were analyzed: HIV-infected n = 70, HIV-uninfected n = 465. Overall, frequency of any current pain was high with 59% [95% confidence interval (CI): 55 to 63, n: 316/535] of participants reporting pain, with no difference related to HIV status: HIV-infected 50% (95% CI: 37 to 61, n: 35/70), HIV-uninfected 60% (95% CI: 56 to 65, n: 281/465). Pain intensity and number of pain sites were similar between the groups as were symptoms of anxiety and depression: mean Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25 1.72 (95% CI: 1.57 to 1.87) HIV-infected participants and 1.68 (95% CI: 1.63 to 1.73) HIV-uninfected participants. Univariate analysis showed female sex and greater depressive and anxiety symptomatology associated with pain. In a multivariable modeling, only depressive and anxiety symptomatology was retained in the model. Conclusion The high frequency of pain found in both HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected individuals presenting at a voluntary counseling and testing center was more likely to be associated with depression and anxiety, than with the presence or absence of HIV. |
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