TY - JOUR
T1 - Loneliness in HIV-infected smokers
AU - Stanton, Cassandra A.
AU - Moadel, Alyson B.
AU - Kim, Ryung S.
AU - Weinberger, Andrea H.
AU - Shuter, Jonathan
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health/ National Institute on Drug Abuse [grant number R21 DA023362]; the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute [grant number R21CA163100-01], [grant number P30CA051008]. It was also supported by the Clinical Core of the Center for AIDS Research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center funded by the National Institutes of Health [grant number AI-51519].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Taylor & Francis.
PY - 2015/2/1
Y1 - 2015/2/1
N2 - Loneliness is common in persons living with HIV (PLWH). Lonely people smoke at higher rates than the general population, and loneliness is a likely contributor to the ongoing smoking epidemic among PLWH. We explored factors associated with loneliness in a cohort of 272 PLWH smokers enrolled in two separate tobacco treatment trials. Loneliness was independently associated with lack of a spouse or partner, lower educational attainment, "other or unknown" HIV exposure category, depression, anxiety, recent alcohol consumption, and higher daily cigarette consumption. Referral to group therapy reduced loneliness, whereas referral to an individual web-based tobacco treatment did not.
AB - Loneliness is common in persons living with HIV (PLWH). Lonely people smoke at higher rates than the general population, and loneliness is a likely contributor to the ongoing smoking epidemic among PLWH. We explored factors associated with loneliness in a cohort of 272 PLWH smokers enrolled in two separate tobacco treatment trials. Loneliness was independently associated with lack of a spouse or partner, lower educational attainment, "other or unknown" HIV exposure category, depression, anxiety, recent alcohol consumption, and higher daily cigarette consumption. Referral to group therapy reduced loneliness, whereas referral to an individual web-based tobacco treatment did not.
KW - Cigarette
KW - HIV
KW - Loneliness
KW - Smoking
KW - Tobacco
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U2 - 10.1080/09540121.2014.963017
DO - 10.1080/09540121.2014.963017
M3 - Article
C2 - 25298196
AN - SCOPUS:84920922884
SN - 0954-0121
VL - 27
SP - 268
EP - 272
JO - AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
JF - AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV
IS - 2
ER -
