Sahabi Kabir Sulaiman, Muhammad Sale Musa, Fatimah Isma'il Tsiga-Ahmed, Saidu Idris Ahmad, Salisu Abubakar Haruna, Abdullahi Abdurrahman Zubair, Bello Tijjani Makama, Aminu Hussein, Abdulwahab Kabir Sulaiman, Farouq Muhammad Dayyab, Abdulaziz Tijjani Bako
This study hypothesizes that depression mediates the association between exposure to stigma and medication non-adherence in people living with HIV (PLHIV). We recruited 372 PLHIV from the Stigma, health-related Quality of life, antiretroviral Adherence, and Depression among people living with HIV (SQuAD-HIV) project, a multicenter cross-sectional study conducted between October 2021 and February 2022 among PLHIV attending six ART clinics in two geopolitical regions of northern Nigeria. A structural equation modeling (SEM) framework, utilizing the full information maximum likelihood estimator, was used to elucidate the pathways linking stigma, depression, and ART medication adherence, adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics...
April 21, 2024: Journal of Behavioral Medicine