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Published in: AIDS and Behavior 2/2014

01-02-2014 | Original Paper

Relationships Between Dimensions of Disability Experienced by Adults Living with HIV: A Structural Equation Model Analysis

Authors: Kelly K. O’Brien, Aileen M. Davis, Sandra Gardner, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Sergio Rueda, Trevor A. Hart, Curtis Cooper, Patricia Solomon, Sean B. Rourke, Steven Hanna, OHTN Cohort Study Team

Published in: AIDS and Behavior | Issue 2/2014

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Abstract

As individuals age with HIV it is increasingly important to consider the health-related consequences of HIV and multiple morbidities, known as disability. We assessed relationships between four dimensions of disability among adults living with HIV. We conducted a structural equation modeling analysis using data from 913 participants in the Ontario HIV Treatment Network Cohort Study to determine relationships between four latent variables of disability in the Episodic Disability Framework: physical symptoms and impairments, mental health symptoms and impairments, difficulties with day-to-day activities, and challenges to social inclusion. Results indicated that physical symptoms and impairments, mental health symptoms and impairments and difficulties with day-to-day activities directly or indirectly predicted challenges to social inclusion for adults living with HIV. Challenges to social inclusion were directly predicted by mental health symptoms and indirectly by physical health symptoms via (mediated by) having difficulties carrying out day-to-day activities and mental health symptoms and impairments. These findings provide a basis for conceptualizing disability experienced by people living with HIV.
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Metadata
Title
Relationships Between Dimensions of Disability Experienced by Adults Living with HIV: A Structural Equation Model Analysis
Authors
Kelly K. O’Brien
Aileen M. Davis
Sandra Gardner
Ahmed M. Bayoumi
Sergio Rueda
Trevor A. Hart
Curtis Cooper
Patricia Solomon
Sean B. Rourke
Steven Hanna
OHTN Cohort Study Team
Publication date
01-02-2014
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
AIDS and Behavior / Issue 2/2014
Print ISSN: 1090-7165
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3254
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-012-0363-2

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