The medical use of cannabis for reducing morbidity and mortality in patients with HIV/AIDS
2013
BACKGROUND: The use of cannabis (marijuana) or of its psychoactive ingredient delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) as a medicine has been highly contested in many settings.There have been claims that smoked or ingested...
A review of HIV prevention interventions for juvenile offenders
2010
OBJECTIVE: To conduct a critical review of all HIV prevention intervention studies conducted with adolescents in juvenile justice settings to inform future intervention development. METHOD: PubMed and PsycInfo database searches...
Telephone delivered interventions for preventing HIV infection in HIV-negative persons
2013
BACKGROUND: This is one of the three Cochrane reviews that examine the role of the telephone in HIV/AIDS services. Although HIV infection can be prevented, still a large number of...
Promoting HIV and sexual safety behaviour in people with severe mental illness: A systematic review of behavioural interventions
2014
People diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) are at greater risk of HIV than the general population. However, little attention has been given to how best to reduce sexual risk...
Dynamics of hope in adults living with HIV/AIDS: A substantive theory
2005
AIM: The aim of this paper was to discuss a substantive theory on the dynamics of hope in adults living with the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome. BACKGROUND: Existing...
HIV infection and mental health: Suicidal behaviour – systematic review
2011
Suicide has long been associated with serious illness generally and HIV specifically. New treatments have affected prognosis in HIV positively, but it is unclear how they impact on suicidal burden...
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...
Antiretroviral adherence interventions: Translating research findings to the real world clinic
2010
The success of potent combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV infection is compromised primarily by failure to maintain optimal levels of adherence over the long term. Recent reviews suggest behavioral...
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...
Interventions to improve the health of the homeless: A systematic review
2005
BACKGROUND: Homelessness is a widespread problem in the United States. The primary goal of this systematic review is to provide guidance in the development and organization of programs to improve...
The impact of HIV/AIDS on children’s educational outcome: A critical review of global literature
2012
The number of children losing one or both parents to HIV/AIDS has continued to rise in the past decade, with most of them being school-aged children. This study reviews global...
The Impact of DSM-IV Mental Disorders on Adherence to Combination Antiretroviral Therapy Among Adult Persons Living with HIV/AIDS: A Systematic Review
2012
This is a systematic review of eighty-two published studies investigating the impact of DSM-IV mental disorders on combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) adherence and persistence among persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA)....
