Khat use in people living with HIV: A facility-based cross-sectional survey from South West Ethiopia

BMC Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Soboka, Matiwos ^a   Tesfaye, Markos ^a   Feyissa, Garumma Tolu ^a   Hanlon, Charlotte ^b,c  

^a JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'ART adherence'; Ethiopia; HIV; Khat use; Mental distress; Sub Saharan Africa; Substance use disorder

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CATHA EDULIS EXTRACT;

ADULT; ALCOHOL USE DISORDER; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHRISTIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSLIM; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CATHA; COMORBIDITY; HIV INFECTIONS; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX RATIO; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927155465     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471244X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12888-015-0446-5     Document Type: Article

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