TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Predictors of death and survival duration among a sample of persons living With HIV/AIDS
JO  - Social work in health care
A1  - Reilly, Thom
A1  - Smith, Laurie
A1  - Woodruff, Susan I.
A1  - Clapp, John D.
A1  - Cade, Jerry
SP  - 783
EP  - 798
VL  - 49
IS  - 9
N2  - A follow-up study was conducted on a sample of 120 ethnically diverse HIV-positive men and women first interviewed in 2000. Participant survival and death rates were ascertained from death records and analyses were performed to identify demographic and psychosocial predictors of survival from the original data. Consistent with past studies, factors associated with survival were age, CD4 count, years HIV positive, and lower alcohol use. Two analyses identified use of professional counseling as a unique factor associated with reduced risk of death. Contrary to our hypotheses, the results from these analyses did not suggest that social groups with fewer economic and institutional resources or those with limited access to highly active retroviral therapy (HAART) therapies were at reduced risk of survival.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0098-1389
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981381003745020
ID  - ref1
ER  -