University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
University of California - San Diego, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2023 Dec;27(12):4094-4105. doi: 10.1007/s10461-023-04123-y. Epub 2023 Jul 7.
Mental health and substance use epidemics interact to create psychosocial syndemics, accelerating poor health outcomes. Using latent class and latent transition analyses, we identified psychosocial syndemic phenotypes and their longitudinal transition pathways among sexual minority men (SMM) in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study (MACS, n = 3,384, mean age 44, 29% non-Hispanic Black, 51% with HIV). Self-reported depressive symptoms and substance use indices (i.e., smoking, hazardous drinking, marijuana, stimulant, and popper use) at the index visit, 3-year and 6-year follow-up were used to model psychosocial syndemics. Four latent classes were identified: "poly-behavioral" (19.4%), "smoking and depression" (21.7%), "illicit drug use" (13.8%), and "no conditions" (45.1%). Across all classes, over 80% of SMM remained in that same class over the follow-ups. SMM who experienced certain psychosocial clusters (e.g., illicit drug use) were less likely to transition to a less complex class. These people could benefit from targeted public health intervention and greater access to treatment resources.
心理健康和物质使用流行相互作用,形成心理社会综合征,加速不良健康结果的出现。我们使用潜在类别和潜在转变分析,在多中心艾滋病队列研究(MACS,n=3384,平均年龄 44 岁,29%为非西班牙裔黑人,51%感染 HIV)中确定了性少数男性(SMM)中的心理社会综合征表型及其纵向转变途径。在索引访问、3 年和 6 年随访时,使用自我报告的抑郁症状和物质使用指标(即吸烟、危险饮酒、大麻、兴奋剂和 Popper 使用)来建立心理社会综合征模型。确定了四个潜在类别:“多行为”(19.4%)、“吸烟和抑郁”(21.7%)、“非法药物使用”(13.8%)和“无条件”(45.1%)。在所有类别中,超过 80%的 SMM 在随访期间仍保持相同的类别。经历某些心理社会集群(例如,非法药物使用)的 SMM 不太可能转变为不那么复杂的类别。这些人可以从有针对性的公共卫生干预和更多治疗资源中受益。