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Food insecurity, depression and the modifying role of social support among people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Uganda
(Social science & medicine, 2012)
Depression is common among people living with HIV/AIDS and contributes to a wide range of worsened HIV-related outcomes, including AIDS-related mortality. Targeting modifiable causes of depression, either through primary ...
How Does Antiretroviral Treatment Attenuate the Stigma of HIV? Evidence from a Cohort Study in Rural Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2013)
Program implementers and qualitative researchers have described how increasing availability of
HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in psychosocial health and internalized stigma. To determine ...
How Does Antiretroviral Treatment Attenuate the Stigma of HIV? Evidence from a Cohort Study in Rural Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2013)
Program implementers and qualitative researchers have described how increasing availability of HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with improvements in psychosocial health and internalized
stigma. To determine ...
Sexual Relationship Power and Depression among HIVInfected Women in Rural Uganda
(PLoS ONE, 2012)
Background: Depression is associated with increased HIV transmission risk, increased morbidity, and higher risk of HIV related death among HIV-infected women. Low sexual relationship power also contributes to HIV risk, but ...
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child mental health, and the mediating effect of maternal depression: A cross-sectional, population-based study in rural, southwestern Uganda
(American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2023-05-08)
Objectives: This study aimed to examine the intergenerational effects of maternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and child mental health outcomes in rural Uganda, as well as the potentially mediating role of maternal ...
Depression During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Among HIV-Infected Women on Antiretroviral Therapy in Uganda
(Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999), 67(Suppl 4), S179., 2014-12)
Background: Among HIV-infected women, perinatal depression compromises clinical, maternal, and child health outcomes. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) is associated with lower depression symptom severity but the uniformity of ...
Adverse childhood experiences, adult depression, and suicidal ideation in rural Uganda: A cross-sectional, population-based study
(PLoS Med, 2021-05-12)
Background
Depression is recognized globally as a leading cause of disability. Early-life adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been shown to have robust associations with poor mental health during adulthood. These ...
Reliability, Validity, and Factor Structure of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-25: Population-Based Study of Persons Living with HIV in Rural Uganda
(AIDS and Behavior, 2018)
Abstract Depression and anxiety are highly comorbid among people living with HIV (PLHIV), but few instruments for screening or measurement have been validated for use in sub-Saharan Africa. The objective of this study was ...
Relative wealth, subjective social status, and their associations with depression: Cross-sectional, population-based study in rural Uganda
(SSM-population health, 2019)
Depression is a leading cause of disability worldwide, and has been found to be a consistent correlate of socioeconomic status (SES). The relative deprivation hypothesis proposes that one mechanism linking SES to health ...
Depression and suicidal ideation among HIV-infected adults receiving efavirenz versus nevirapine in Uganda: a prospective cohort study
(Annals of internal medicine, 2018)
Background: There is conflicting evidence about potential adverse neuropsychiatric effects of efavirenz and limited data from sub-Saharan Africa, where efavirenz is used as first-line therapy and 70% of people living with ...