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Psychiatric Disorders and Drug Use Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus–Infected Adults in the United States

Eric G. Bing, MD, PhD, MPH; M. Audrey Burnam, PhD; Douglas Longshore, PhD; John A. Fleishman, PhD; Cathy Donald Sherbourne, PhD; Andrew S. London, PhD; Barbara J. Turner, MD, MSEd; Ferd Eggan, MA; Robin Beckman, MPH; Benedetto Vitiello, MD; Sally C. Morton, PhD; Maria Orlando, PhD; Samuel A. Bozzette, MD, PhD; Lucila Ortiz-Barron, MD; Martin Shapiro, MD, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2001;58:721-728.

Background  There have been no previous nationally representative estimates of the prevalence of mental disorders and drug use among adults receiving care for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease in the United States. It is also not known which clinical and sociodemographic factors are associated with these disorders.

Subjects and Methods  We enrolled a nationally representative probability sample of 2864 adults receiving care for HIV in the United States in 1996. Participants were administered a brief structured psychiatric instrument that screened for psychiatric disorders (major depression, dysthymia, generalized anxiety disorders, and panic attacks) and drug use during the previous 12 months. Sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with screening positive for any psychiatric disorder and drug dependence were examined in multivariate logistic regression analyses.

Results  Nearly half of the sample screened positive for a psychiatric disorder, nearly 40% reported using an illicit drug other than marijuana, and more than 12% screened positive for drug dependence during the previous 12 months. Factors independently associated with screening positive for a psychiatric disorder included number of HIV-related symptoms, illicit drug use, drug dependence, heavy alcohol use, and being unemployed or disabled. Factors independently associated with screening positive for drug dependence included having many HIV-related symptoms, being younger, being heterosexual, having frequent heavy alcohol use, and screening positive for a psychiatric disorder.

Conclusions  Many people infected with HIV may also have psychiatric and/or drug dependence disorders. Clinicians may need to actively identify those at risk and work with policymakers to ensure the availability of appropriate care for these treatable disorders.


From the Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services and Collaborative Alcohol Research Center, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science, Los Angeles, Calif (Dr Bing); RAND, Santa Monica, Calif (Drs Burnam, Sherbourne, Orlando, Bozzette, and Shapiro and Ms Beckman); RAND, Santa Monica, Calif (Dr Longshore); University of California, Los Angeles Drug Abuse Research Center (Dr Longshore); Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Md (Dr Fleishman); Department of Sociology, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio (Dr London); Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Dr Turner); AIDS Coordinator's Office, City of Los Angeles (Mr Eggan); National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Md (Dr Vitiello); RAND Statistics Group, Santa Monica, Calif (Dr Morton); Health Services Research and Development Unit, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego (Dr Bozzette); College of Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing (Dr Ortiz-Barron); Department of General Internal Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (Dr Shapiro).

Corresponding author and reprints: Eric G. Bing, MD, PhD, MPH, Center for AIDS Research, Education and Services and Collaborative Alcohol Research Center, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine & Science, 1651 E 120th St, Los Angeles, CA 90059 (e-mail: erbing{at}cdrewu.edu).



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