Psychological difficulties related to human immunodeficiency virus-1 infection in intravenous drug users
- 1 July 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 90 (1) , 25-31
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1994.tb01551.x
Abstract
Psychopathology and emotional changes were examined over a 9-month period in this study of human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) infection in seronegative and seropositive intravenous drug users. The HIV-1-seropositive group showed more psychological difficulties and emotional distress at both testings. For the HIV-1-seronegative subjects, a trend for less psychopathology and psychological distress was found. At the second testing, the difference between groups was increased due to improvement of the HIV-1-seronegative group. A more chronic course of psychological distress was found in the HIV-1-seropositive group.Keywords
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