Assessing psychological symptom networks related to HIV-positive duration among people living with HIV

A network analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19440211
AutoresZheng Zhu (0000-0002-2164-0141, Fudan University), Mengdi Guo (0000-0002-4396-5748, Communication University of China), Tingyue Dong (0000-0001-6477-7327, Beijing Administration Institute, Beijing, People’s Republic of China), Shuyu Han (0000-0002-2506-6888, Fudan University), Yan Hu (0000-0001-6506-0694, Fudan University, autor correspondente), Bei Wu (0000-0002-6891-244X, New York University)
Ano2022
Volume34
Fascículo6
Páginas725-733
Data de publicação2022-06-03
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAIDS Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0954-0121 • E-ISSN: 1360-0451
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09540121.2021.1929815
PMID34043459
OpenAlexW3165292490
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas25

This study aims to explore and visualize relationships among multiple psychological symptoms among people living with HIV (PLWH) with different HIV-positive durations and to compare centrality indices and densities of psychological symptom networks. We used subsets of data collected from five designated HIV/AIDS hospitals in China. Networks were constructed among 16 psychological symptoms. Centrality properties, including strength and closeness, were adopted to describe relationships among symptoms. The results showed that PLWH with longer HIV-positive durations had denser emotional networks, which indicated that they had more emotional neuroticism than their newly diagnosed counterparts. Sadness, self-abasement, and self-loathing were the most central psychological symptoms across different HIV-positive durations. Our study suggests the need to provide psychosocial support services targeting PLWH according to changing symptom severity and neuroticism trajectories. Interventions should focus on increasing empathy for PLWH and enhancing the ability to consider the situation from different perspectives to avoid the development of neuroticism in long-term survivors

Anxiety · Centrality · Closeness · Depressive symptoms · Empathy · Neuroticism · Personality · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Psychosocial · Clinical Psychology · Functional Brain Connectivity Studies · Medicine · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tryptophan and brain disorders