Assessment of pain and associated factors in people living with HIV/AIDS.
Aliny Cristini Pereira, Fernanda Bradbury, Estefani Serafim Rossetti and 1 others
PMID 31340343WHAT IT FOUND
179 of 302 adults living with HIV/AIDS reported pain in the last 24 hours.
Pain was more common in women, people with lower schooling, and those with depressive symptoms.
Key findings
01179 of 302 adults living with HIV/AIDS reported pain in the last 24 hours.
02Women were 79% more likely than men to report pain.
03People with PHQ-9 scores of 9 or higher were 2.11 times more likely to report pain.
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What it does not show
This was a single-site cross-sectional survey, so it can show associations measured at one time point, not that any factor caused pain. Pain was asked about only for the last 24 hours because of the Brief Pain Inventory, so people with intermittent pain may have been missed. The sample was limited to adults aged 18 to 59 years who had been on antiretroviral therapy for at least 6 months, and it excluded pregnant women and people with more than one viral infection, so the results do not apply to children, adolescents, older adults, pregnancy, or co-infection. Some clinical groups were small, which reduced the ability to detect differences. Pain, depressive symptoms, and quality of life were self-reported.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the associations with sex, schooling, depressive symptoms, and quality of life as proof that these factors cause pain. The study measured pain only in the last 24 hours in one clinic, and it cannot show which came first.