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01-12-2017 | Brief Report
Mental Health Disorders and Publicly Funded Service Use by HIV Positive Individuals: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study in Ontario, Canada
Authors:
Anna Durbin, Hilary K. Brown, Tony Antoniou, Frank Sirotich, Symron Bansal, Marina Heifetz, Kay Roesslein, Yona Lunsky
Published in:
AIDS and Behavior
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Issue 12/2017
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Abstract
We compared use of community and hospital-based mental health and addiction (MH&A) services by adults with and without HIV. This population-based study examined the probability and intensity of MH&A service use by individuals with (n = 5095) and without HIV (n = 2,753,091) in Ontario, Canada between 2013 and 2014. Adults with HIV were more likely than HIV-negative adults to use MH&A primary and psychiatric care, and to have MH&A emergency department visits and hospital admissions; they also used more of each service. Use of MH&A hospital services was particularly high for persons in the HIV group compared to the no HIV group.