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Megha L Mehrotra1,2, David V Glidden3, Vanessa McMahan4, K Rivet Amico5, Sybil Hosek6, Patricia Defechereux4, Kenneth H Mayer7, Valdilea G Veloso8, Linda-Gail Bekker9, Vivian I Avelino-Silva10, Mauro Schechter11, Robert M Grant4,3.
Abstract
We assessed the role of depressive symptoms on adherence to daily oral FTC/TDF for HIV PrEP in cisgender men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women who have sex with men (TGW) using data from the iPrEx OLE study. A marginal structural logistic regression model was used to estimate the effect of time-varying CES-D scores on having protective levels of drug concentration, adjusting for confounding by sexual practices over time, prior adherence, and baseline demographic characteristics. We found a non-monotonic relationship between CES-D score and odds of protective FTC/TDF levels in MSM. We found evidence that the effect of depression on adherence varied between MSM and TGW, and that depressive symptoms did not contribute greatly to decreased adherence on a population scale. We recommend that depressive symptoms not preclude the prescription of PrEP, and that MSM and TGW be studied separately.Entities:
Keywords: Adherence; Depression; HIV prevention; Marginal structural model; Men who have sex with men; PrEP; Preexposure prophylaxis; Transgender women; iPrEx OLE
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27125241 PMCID: PMC4912836 DOI: 10.1007/s10461-016-1415-9
Source DB: PubMed Journal: AIDS Behav ISSN: 1090-7165