PMID: 11313086Apr 21, 2001Paper

Suicide probability and psychological morbidity secondary to HIV infection: a control study of HIV-seropositive, hepatitis C virus (HCV)-seropositive and HIV/HCV-seronegative injecting drug users

Journal of Affective Disorders
L GrassiF Ghinelli

Abstract

Suicide ideation and psychological morbidity among HIV-positive patients has been the object of intense research. No study has investigated this area among injecting drug users (IDUs) infected with HIV and those infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), which has the same patterns of transmission of the HIV and may favour HIV replication and, possibly, HIV disease progression. In order to examine the prevalence and characteristics of suicide ideation and psychological morbidity associated with HIV and HCV infection in IDUs, a sample of HIV+ (n=81), HIV-/HCV+ (n=62) and HIV-/HCV- (n=152) subjects completed the Suicide Probability Scale (SPS), The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). No difference was found between the groups as far as the mean scores on SPS and the risk of suicide (no-low risk category: 70.7% HIV+, 56.09% HCV+, 65.6% HIV-/HCV-). Estimated psychological morbidity (BSI) (26.9% HIV+, 27.1% HCV+, 25.4% of HIV-/HCV-) and BSI and HADS scores were comparable across the groups. Suicide ideation, psychological morbidity and anxiety and depression symptoms seemed not to be directly influenced by HIV-serostatus. Careful assessment of psychological symptoms and suicide ideas a...Continue Reading

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