Incident depression among Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities and HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Despite disproportionally high prevalence of HIV and depression in persons with disabilities, no data have been published on the incidence and correlates of depression in Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. We assessed the effect of HIV infection on developing depression in this population.

Design

We conducted a retrospective matched cohort study using a 5% sample of Medicare beneficiaries who qualified for disability coverage (1996-2015).

Methods

Beneficiaries with incident ( n  = 2438) and prevalent ( n  = 5758) HIV were individually matched with beneficiaries without HIV (HIV-, n  = 20 778). Fine-Gray models with death as a competing risk were used to assess the effect of HIV status, age, and cohort period on developing depression by sex strata.

SUBMITTER: Yu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9283374 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature