Patient-related Factors Predicting HIV Medication Adherence among Men and Women with Alcohol Problems

Abstract

The study explored the relationship between HIV medication adherence and alcohol, cognitive, social and affective factors in 272 persons with alcohol problems. Alcohol and cognitive factors significantly differentiated those who did and did not adhere. Specifically, adherence confidence and number of drinks emerged as subfactors driving the associations to adherence. Among those who were less than perfectly adherent (n = 154), only alcohol factors predicted levels of nonadherence. Cognitive factors play a role in understanding some of the differences between those who do and do not adhere to their HIV medications, but they do not differentiate among levels of nonadherence.

Associação entre uso de álcool em indivíduos com AIDS e adesão ao tratamento antirretroviral: uma revisão da literatura

“…Esse mesmo autor encontrou associação significativa em dois outros artigos publicados em 2007. Em um desses artigos, escrito juntamente com Rosof e Mustanski, Parsons avaliou os subfatores do padrão de uso de álcool e demonstrou que entre os não aderentes é a quantidade de drinks consumidos pelo indivíduo que prediz se haverá ou não falhas na adesão [17][18][19][20][21] .…”

Preintervention Profiles of Information, Motivational, and Behavioral Self-Efficacy for Methamphetamine Use and HIV Medication Adherence Among Gay and Bisexual Men

“…Motivation for medication adherence was measured by utilizing an adapted adherence-specific 12-item Decisional Balance Scale. 40,41 Sample items include ''My HIV medications will be able to control my HIV illness if I take them the way my doctor told me'' and ''Being adherent all the time interferes with my social life.'' Participants indicated the importance of each statement for their decision making on a scale of 1 (Not At All) to 5 (Extremely), generating a pros score and a cons score, where higher scores indicate stronger perceptions of pros and cons.…”

Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy and Factors affecting among People Living with HIV/AIDS and Taking Antiretroviral Therapy, Dire Dawa Town, Eastern Ethiopia

“…The commonly identified factors for non-adherence are forgetfulness, poor understanding of the relationship between non adherence and disease progression, side effects of drugs, alcohol and drug abuse, poor social support, poor health providerpatient relationships, being away from home, fear of disclosure, educational level, and others [12][13][14][15]. We, therefore, aimed at determining of adherence and identifying the factors that are related to non-adherence to ART among the patients attending at ART units in Harare National Regional State, eastern Ethiopia.…”