Time to get it right: investing in the mental wellbeing of people living with HIV.
Time to get it right: investing in the mental wellbeing of people living with HIV.
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是时候采取正确措施了:投资于艾滋病毒感染者的心理健康。
DOI:
10.1097/qad.0000000000003554
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发表时间:
2023
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Gaynes,BradleyN
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作者:
Pence,BrianW;Gaynes,BradleyN
Twenty-one years ago, Glenn Treisman, director of the AIDS Psychiatry service at Johns Hopkins and the moving force behind one of the oldest and what continues to be one of the preeminent integrated HIV/mental health clinics in the country, came to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to give a lecture about mental health and HIV to a broad entrylevel HIV survey course. You think HIV is a neglected, stigmatized, and devastating disease?(according to the memory of the first author) he asked the lecture hall of hundreds of undergrads, premeds and at least one firstyear epidemiology doctoral student. Let me tell you about mental illness among people with HIV. No one knows about this, no one is researching it, and it is killing my patients.What has changed in these 21 years? We now have a deep and robust literature base convincingly demonstrating what Dr Treisman and many others already knew: depression in particular, and other mental health concerns generally, are overwhelmingly common among people with HIV, much more so than in the general population [1–3]; depression and other mental health concerns are consistently and strongly associated with worse medication adherence, falling out of care, disease progression, and early mortality in this population [4–6]; and treating depression and other mental health concerns reverses these negative effects and improves outcomes [7–9]. We know that combined treatment approaches that integrate mental health counseling with skill-building around medication adherence and HIV care are particularly impactful [9–11]. And now, thanks to the compelling, intricate, and elegant analysis by