The Prevalence and Negative Impacts of Substance Use Disorders among People with HIV in the United States : A Real-Time Delphi Survey of Key Stakeholders

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Although HIV and substance use disorders (SUDs) constitute a health syndemic, no research to date has examined the perceived negative impacts of different SUDs for people with HIV (PWH). In May 2019, 643 stakeholders in the U.S., representing clients of AIDS service organizations (ASOs), ASO staff, and HIV/AIDS Planning Council members, participated in an innovative Stakeholder-Engaged Real-Time Delphi (SE-RTD) survey focused on the prevalence and individual-level negative impact of five SUDs for PWH. The SE-RTD method has advantages over conventional survey methods by efficiently sharing information, thereby reducing the likelihood that between-group differences are simply due to lack of information, knowledge, and/or understanding. The population-level negative impacts were calculated by weighting each SUD's individual-level negative impact on indicators of the HIV Care Continuum and other important areas of life by the perceived prevalence of each SUD. Overall, we found these SUDs to have the greatest population-level negative impact scores (possible range 0-24): alcohol use disorder (population-level negative impact = 6.9; perceived prevalence = 41.9%), methamphetamine use disorder (population-level negative impact = 6.5; perceived prevalence = 3.2%), and opioid use disorder (population-level negative impact = 6.4; perceived prevalence = 34.6%). Beyond further demonstration of the need to better integrate SUD services within HIV settings, our findings may help inform how finite funding is allocated for addressing the HIV-SUD syndemic within the U.S. Based on our findings, such future efforts should prioritize the integration of evidence-based treatments that help address use disorders for alcohol, methamphetamine, and opioids.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

AIDS and behavior - 26(2022), 4 vom: 29. Apr., Seite 1183-1196

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Garner, Bryan R [VerfasserIn]
Gotham, Heather J [VerfasserIn]
Knudsen, Hannah K [VerfasserIn]
Zulkiewicz, Brittany A [VerfasserIn]
Tueller, Stephen J [VerfasserIn]
Berzofsky, Marcus [VerfasserIn]
Donohoe, Tom [VerfasserIn]
Martin, Erika G [VerfasserIn]
Brown, L Lauren [VerfasserIn]
Gordon, Theodore [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

44RAL3456C
Addiction treatment
HIV
Integrated care
Journal Article
Methamphetamine
Substance use disorders

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Date Completed 24.03.2022

Date Revised 09.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10461-021-03473-9

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM331280418