Abstract

GONZALEZ RAMIREZ, MÓNICA TERESA  and  PINA LOPEZ, JULIO ALFONSO. Motives, Social Support, and Adherence Behaviors in HIV-Patients: Structural Equation Modeling. Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2011, vol.10, n.2, pp.399-409. ISSN 1657-9267.

A cross-sectional study was carried out in order to assess the influence of a set of psychological and social variables on adherence behaviors in a sample of 69 persons with HIV, using a structural equations model. The final model revealed a strong influence of motives and social support on adherence behaviors, both explaining 49% of the total variance; also, an effect of adherence behaviors on viral load levels and of this one on T CD4+ cell counts were observed. The current study contributes to understand variables underlying adherence behaviors in a sample of persons with HIV, and therefore intervention programs directed to promote and/or to maintain these behaviors must to consider the specific weight of some psychological and social variables along the behavioral continuum.

Keywords : Hiv; Adherence; Motivation; Social Support; Intervention Programs; Clinical Psychology; Social Psychology; Behaviour; Social Behaviour; Group Behaviour; Variance Analysis.

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