Forms of social support and their relationships to mental health in HIV-positive persons
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A baseline assessment for an HIV health services study recruited 626 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in New York city who participated in an interview querying social support, health status, substance use, and mental health. Data were modeled using hierarchical classes (HICLAS) analysis. HICLAS discriminated items reflecting general support and assistance vs. support from an important person in one's life who was named in addition to other family members and friends. HICLAS then identified respondents who reported that they had general support and assistance, support from an important person, both types, or neither type of support. Having one or more important persons as part of the respondent's social network was associated with more positive mental (but not physical) health than having only general support and assistance, or no support at all. Results argue for differentiating support obtained through one's relationship with an important person.
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- Authors
- Reich, W. A., Lounsbury, D. W., Zaid-Muhammad, S., & Rapkin, B. D.
- Affiliations
- The Family Center (US)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- Corresponding author
- Reich, Warren A.
- Venue
- Psychology, Health & Medicine
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-03
- Volume
- 15
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 135-145
- ISSN
- 1354-8506 (ISSN-L)
- 1465-3966
- OpenAlex
- W2015332468
- Cited by
- 46
- References
- 45
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 3 · 2017: 4 · 2016: 5 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 3.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychology Health & Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH063045, 5R01-MH063045)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- social support, people living with HIV, mental health, social networks, substance use, health status
- MeSH terms
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Alcoholism, Anxiety, Depression, Female, HIV Seropositivity, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Male, Middle Aged, Personality Inventory, Psychometrics, Social Support, Illicit Drugs, Caregivers, Cost of Illness, Substance-Related Disorders, Young Adult
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