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Associations Between Alcohol Use, Other Psychosocial Factors, Structural Factors and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Adherence Among South African ART Recipients

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We examined whether alcohol use is associated with antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence independently of structural and psychosocial factors among 304 male and female ART recipients in ART sites in Tshwane, South Africa. ART adherence was assessed by the CASE Adherence Index. Independent variables were demographic, structural, psycho-social, and alcohol use (AUDIT score) factors. In hierarchical multiple regression, demographic variables (Step 1) explained 4 % of variance in ART adherence (p ≤ 0.01). Variance explained increased to 16 % (p ≤ 0.001) after entering structural variables (Step 2); 19 % (p ≤ 0.001) after entering psychosocial variables (Step 3); and 24 % (p ≤ 0.001) after entering AUDIT score (Step 4). Alcohol use is independently associated with ART adherence.

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This article was supported by Cooperative Agreement Number U2G/PS001137-02 from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC. The authors would like to thank Ms. Mantoa Nzeku for managing the study and Ms. Naledi Kitleli and Mr. Kgalabi Ngako for supervising the field staff. We are indebted to the clinic sites’ managers and health care providers as well as the patients for consenting to participate in this study.

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  1. Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Private Bag X385, Pretoria, 0001, South Africa

    Neo K. Morojele, Connie T. Kekwaletswe & Sebenzile Nkosi

  2. School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

    Neo K. Morojele

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Morojele, N.K., Kekwaletswe, C.T. & Nkosi, S. Associations Between Alcohol Use, Other Psychosocial Factors, Structural Factors and Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Adherence Among South African ART Recipients. AIDS Behav 18, 519–524 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-013-0583-0

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