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AIDS Care
Psychological and Socio-medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
Volume 32, 2020 - Issue 8
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HIV-related stigma and quality of life in people living with HIV and depressive symptoms: indirect effects of positive coping and perceived stress

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Pages 1030-1035 | Received 08 Oct 2019, Accepted 31 Mar 2020, Published online: 14 Apr 2020
 

ABSTRACT

Despite a strong evidence on the negative association between HIV-related stigma and quality of life (QoL), few studies have examined the indirect effects of this relationship. This study aimed to examine the association between HIV-related stigma and QoL and the indirect effects of positive coping and perceived stress in people living with HIV and depressive symptoms (PLWHD). This study used baseline date from a randomized controlled trial. Structural equation model was used to examine the association between HIV-related stigma and QoL as well as the indirect effects of positive coping and perceived stress. Perceived and internalized stigma had negative direct (β = −0.14, p < 0.05) effect on QoL. Moreover, perceived and internalized stigma had indirect effects on QoL through decreased positive coping and increased perceived stress (β = −0.23, p < 0.001). Multilevel interventions to reduce perceived and internalized stigma and perceived stress as well as programs to enhance positive coping may improve QoL of PLWHD. Integrated interventions that both enhance positive coping and reduce perceived stress and stigma are potentially more effective in improving QoL than programs that focus on only one aspect of stigma reduction among PLWHD.

Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank all the participants who completed the study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the [National Natural Science Foundation of China] under Grant [number 71573290]; [China Medical Board] under Grant [number 17–271].

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