TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Suicidality and clinical correlates in Chinese men who have sex with men (MSM) with HIV infection
JO  - Psychology, health and medicine
A1  - Wang, Yuan-Yuan
A1  - Dong, Min
A1  - Zhang, Qinge
A1  - Xu, Dan-Dan
A1  - Zhao, Jin
A1  - Ng, Chee H.
A1  - Ungvari, Gabor S.
A1  - Jia, Fu-Jun
A1  - Xiang, Yu-Tao
SP  - 137
EP  - 143
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
N2  - Little is known about suicidality in Chinese men who has sex with men (MSM) infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This study investigated suicidality and its clinical correlates in Chinese MSM with HIV infection. Suicidality, demographic and clinical characteristics were assessed in 410 MSM with HIV infection consecutively recruited from a public HIV clinic in China. The prevalence of suicidality was 10.7% in Chinese HIV-infected MSM. Compared with those without suicidality, MSM with suicidality were more likely to be younger, unmarried and unemployed, and have more frequent insomnia, lower CD4 lymphocyte counts, and higher GAD-7 and CSE-D total scores. Multiple logistic regression analyses revealed that suicidality was independently associated with unemployment (p = 0.03, OR = 0.3, 95% CI = 0.1-0.9), age (p < 0.01, OR = 0.9, 95% CI = 0.8-0.9), CD4 lymphocyte counts (p = 0.02, OR = 0.9, 95% CI = 0.9-1.0), and the GAD-7 total score (p < 0.001, OR = 1.3, 95% CI = 1.1-1.5). Suicidality is common in Chinese MSM with HIV infection. There is an urgent need to develop comprehensive suicide prevention program and mental health services for this population.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1354-8506
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13548506.2018.1515495
ID  - ref1
ER  -