Correlated depressive symptoms within seroconcordant, expectant partners living with HIV in Zambezia Province, Mozambique: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: Approximately 15% of people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa have comorbid depression, which impacts treatment outcomes. We describe predictors of baseline depressive symptoms in 1079 female and 1079 male participants in a cluster-randomized trial in Zambézia Province, Mozambique from November 2017 to December 2020. We modeled each partners' depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-9 [PHQ-9]) using proportional odds models adjusted for enrollment date, age, body mass index [BMI], partner's PHQ-9 score, district, relationship status, education, occupation, WHO HIV clinical stage, and antiretroviral therapy use history. A post hoc analysis assessed covariate-adjusted rank correlation between partner depressive symptoms. Females were younger than males (median 23 vs. 28 years) a

SUBMITTER: Sack DE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10241982 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature