Psychological interventions for common mental disorders for people living with HIV in low- and middle-income countries: Systematic review
2015
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effectiveness of structured psychological interventions against common mental disorders (CMD) in people living with HIV infection (PLWH), in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). METHODS: Systematic review...
Depression in HIV infected patients: A review
2015
Depression is the most common neuropsychiatric complication in HIV-infected patients and may occur in all phases of the infection. Accurately, diagnosing major depressive disorder in the context of HIV is...
Improving mental health among people living with HIV: A review of intervention trials in low- and middle-income countries
2015
People living with HIV (PLWH) experience greater psychological distress than the general population. Evidence from high-incomes countries suggests that psychological interventions for PLWH can improve mental health symptoms, quality of...
HIV risk behavior among adults with severe mental illness: A systematic review
2005
Adults with severe mental illness (SMI) have been disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This systematic review of the empirical literature on SMI documents the prevalence and correlates of HIV...
A review of research on residential programs for people with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders
2004
Substance use disorder is the most common and clinically significant co-morbidity among clients with severe mental illnesses, associated with poor treatment response, homelessness and other adverse outcomes. Residential programs for...
Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the first generation of HIV prevention interventions for people with severe and persistent mental illness
2003
BACKGROUND: People with serious mental illness are at elevated risk for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. A small body of published research has evaluated the efficacy of HIV prevention interventions...
Adverse psychosocial factors predict poorer prognosis in HIV disease: A meta-analytic review of prospective investigations
2009
There is a growing epidemiological literature focusing on the association between psychosocial stress and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease progression or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), but inconsistent findings have been...
Mental health needs of people living with HIV/AIDS in India: A literature review
2011
We describe the global conditions associated with the AIDS pandemic and its socioeconomic and psychological impacts. A systematic review was performed to investigate the literature on the mental health needs...
The mental health of people living with HIV/AIDS in Africa: A systematic review
2009
This paper reviews published quantitative research on the mental health of HIV-infected adults in Africa. Twenty-seven articles published between 1994 and 2008 reported the results of 23 studies. Most studies...
A meta-analysis of the neuropsychological sequelae of HIV infection
2002
This meta-analysis summarizes the broad spectrum of neuropsychological research on HIV disease across a sample of 41 primary studies and an aggregate of 8,616 participants for 10 major neuropsychological ability...
Stress and coping in women living with HIV: A meta-analytic review
2012
To examine effects between stressors and coping mechanisms on behavioral health outcomes a meta-analysis was conducted using forty empirical articles which sampled 7,602 adult women living with HIV/AIDS in the...
HIV/AIDS and mental health research in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review
2011
The relationship between mental illness and HIV/AIDS is complex and bidirectional. A significant amount of research has been performed in high-income countries but less is known about HIV and mental...
