Association Between Depression and Condom Use Differs by Sexual Behavior Group in Patients with HIV

Brickman, Cristina; Propert, Kathleen J.; Voytek, Chelsea; Metzger, David S.; Gross, Robert

doi:10.1007/s10461-016-1610-8

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“…Studies have shown that the prevalence rates of anxiety among MSM in Zhejiang and Chongqing, China, were 24.0% and 31.97%, respectively. Besides, previous studies have reported that poor mental health such as anxiety and depression are related to the HIV risk of MSM ( Babowitch et al, 2018 ; Brickman et al, 2017 ; Chen & Raymond, 2017 ; Fendrich et al, 2013 ; Lelutiu-Weinberger et al, 2013 ; Pan et al, 2017 ; Watkins et al, 2016 ). For instance, the higher the level of depressive symptoms reported by MSM, the more likely they are to have unprotected anal sex ( Fendrich et al, 2013 ); anxiety has also been identified as an independent predictor of sexual risk ( Lelutiu-Weinberger et al, 2013 ).…”

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Anxiety and Depression Status and Influencing Factors of MSM in the Post-COVID-19 Epidemic Period: A Cross-Sectional Study in Western China

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This study aimed to explore the psychological status and influencing factors of men who have sex with men (MSM) during the stable period of the COVID-19 epidemic, to provide a reference for the mental health counseling of MSM, and to provide a scientific basis for this group to actively respond to public health emergencies. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on the demographic characteristics, epidemic experiences, risk perception, and COVID-19-related attitudes of MSM in western China, and MSM anxiety and depression were assessed by using the Anxiety Self-Rating Scale and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale. The incidences of MSM anxiety and depression in the post-COVID-19 epidemic period are 21.7% and 38.0%, respectively. Logistic regression analysis showed that in terms of anxiety, high controllability of the epidemic (OR = 0.7616) is a protective factor. Thinking that they are more susceptible to COVID-19 (OR = 1.6168) and worrying about another outbreak of the epidemic (OR = 1.4793) are risk factors. In terms of depression, being able to protect themselves from being infected with COVID-19 (OR = 0.6280) is a protective factor. The role of anal sex as “0”/“0.5,” and believing that they are more susceptible to COVID-19 (OR = 1.3408) are risk factors. The sudden outbreak affected the psychological state of MSM and even caused negative feelings of anxiety and depression. These findings suggest that prevention and education should be strengthened, and effective intervention measures should be taken as soon as possible, to improve the mental health of MSM.

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“…24 An American study confirmed a relationship between depression and the failure to use condoms in PLWH with uninfected partners. 26 In our study, depression was more common in men than in women. Shadloo et al evaluated the prevalence of psychological issues amongst Iranian PLWH: mood disorders, including major depressive disorder, were more prevalent in males than females (34.5% vs. 28.8%, respectively).…”

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“… 24 An American study confirmed a relationship between depression and the failure to use condoms in PLWH with uninfected partners. 26 …”

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Depression, sleep quality and condom use amongst Iranian people living with human immunodeficiency virus

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Najafi

Nakhostin-Ansari

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Southern African Journal of HIV Medicine

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Background Depression is a common mood disorder in people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH) and is associated with risk-taking sexual behaviour. Objectives This study examines depression, sleep quality and condom usage amongst PLWH in Tehran, Iran. Method This cross-sectional study was undertaken between October and November 2019 on 298 PLWH referred to voluntary counselling and testing centres (VCTs) in Tehran. Participants provided information as per the following questionnaires: the Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index Questionnaire and a demographic questionnaire that evaluated condom use. Results A total of 298 PLWH, of whom 202 (67.8%) were men with a mean age of 39.81 years, were enrolled in the study. The DASS classified 57% with depression. Fewer than 20% of these used condoms regularly. The majority of depressed patients were men (68.6%) and 31.4% were women. The depressed patients were more likely not to use condoms than those who were not depressed (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 6.5; 95% confidence interval [CI], 3.70–11.42). The adjusted OR for not using a condom amongst the depressed was 7.12 times greater (95% CI, 5.85–10.11) than in those without depression. Conclusion Our findings suggest that depression is common amongst PLWH in Tehran and is associated with risk-taking sexual behaviour. Appropriate interventions are needed to address mental disorders in PLWH. It is recommended that patients be screened regularly for symptoms of depression and, where indicated, counselled and managed.

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“…We choose six estimator values of 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500, five minimum child weight values of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and five regularization alpha values of 1e-5, 1e-3, 1e-2, 0.1, and 1. The search ranges for learning rate, maximum tree depth, subsample and colsample_bytree were [0.05,0.2], ( 3 , 11 ), [0.5,1] and [0.5,1], respectively. We carefully tuned the parameters of the XGBoost algorithm to obtain the best performance, the final XGBoost model parameter settings are described in Table 3 .…”

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“…Suffering from disproportionate rates of stigma and discrimination ( 3 , 4 ), MSM experience remarkably poorer mental health ( 5 ). And evidence has demonstrated that HIV risk ( 6 – 9 ), amphetamine-type-stimulants (ATS) use and homosexuality-related stigma ( 10 ), and sexual risk behaviors ( 11 , 12 ) are associated with depression among MSM population. Therefore, it is of crucial importance to develop reliable and efficient methods for detection and early warning of the depressive emotions or mental health among MSM population, and enable those suffering from depression to be more proactive about their mental health.…”

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Depressive Emotion Detection and Behavior Analysis of Men Who Have Sex With Men via Social Media

Cai

Qin³

et al. 2020

Front. Psychiatry

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Background: A large amount of evidence has indicated an association between depression and HIV risk among men who have sex with men (MSM), but traditional questionnaire-based methods are limited in timely monitoring depressive emotions with large sample sizes. With the development of social media and machine learning techniques, MSM depression can be well monitored in an online and easy-to-use manner. Thereby, we adopt a machine learning algorithm for MSM depressive emotion detection and behavior analysis with online social networking data. Methods: A large-scale MSM data set including 664,335 users and over 12 million posts was collected from the most popular MSM-oriented geosocial networking mobile application named Blued. Also, a non-MSM Benchmark data set from Twitter was used. After data preprocessing and feature extraction of these two data sets, a machine learning algorithm named XGBoost was adopted for detecting depressive emotions. Results: The algorithm shows good performance in the Blued and Twitter data sets. And three extracted features significantly affecting the depressive emotion detection were found, including depressive words, LDA topic words, and post-time distribution. On the one hand, the MSM with depressive emotions published posts with more depressive words, negative words and positive words than the MSM without depressive emotions. On the other hand, in comparison with the non-MSM with depressive emotions, the MSM with depressive emotions showed more significant depressive symptoms, such as insomnia, depressive mood, and suicidal thoughts. Conclusions: The online MSM depressive emotion detection using machine learning can provide a proper and easy-to-use way in real-world applications, which help identify highrisk individuals at the early stage of depression for further diagnosis.

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Association Between Depression and Condom Use Differs by Sexual Behavior Group in Patients with HIV

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Anxiety and Depression Status and Influencing Factors of MSM in the Post-COVID-19 Epidemic Period: A Cross-Sectional Study in Western China

Anxiety and Depression Status and Influencing Factors of MSM in the Post-COVID-19 Epidemic Period: A Cross-Sectional Study in Western China

Depression, sleep quality and condom use amongst Iranian people living with human immunodeficiency virus

Depressive Emotion Detection and Behavior Analysis of Men Who Have Sex With Men via Social Media

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