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Huamani, A., Robles, M. (2024). Asociación entre la alexitimia y miedo al COVID-19 en personas adultas con infección por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) que reciben atención médica ambulatoria en un hospital de referencia del Seguro Social de Salud en Perú durante el segundo semestre del 2021 [Tesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)]. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/673441
Huamani, A., Robles, M. Asociación entre la alexitimia y miedo al COVID-19 en personas adultas con infección por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) que reciben atención médica ambulatoria en un hospital de referencia del Seguro Social de Salud en Perú durante el segundo semestre del 2021 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC); 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/673441
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title = "Asociación entre la alexitimia y miedo al COVID-19 en personas adultas con infección por el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) que reciben atención médica ambulatoria en un hospital de referencia del Seguro Social de Salud en Perú durante el segundo semestre del 2021",
author = "Robles Arguedas, Maria Claudia",
publisher = "Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)",
year = "2024"
}
Objective: To evaluate the association between alexithymia and fear of COVID-19 in adult people living with HIV (PLWHIV) controlled by demographic, clinical, and psychological variables, COVID-19 history, and lifestyles. Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study in PLWHIV receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and outpatient care at a national referral hospital from Social Security in Lima, Peru. We assessed alexithymia using the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) and fear of COVID-19 using the FCV-19S scale. Likewise, we assessed age, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, employment status, time from HIV diagnoses and time under HAART, depressive symptoms, anxious symptoms, alcohol use, tobacco use, and COVID-19 history. We estimated crude (cPR) and adjusted prevalence ratios with 95% CI based on statistical (aPR1) and epidemiological (aPR2) criteria using generalised linear models of the Poisson family with non-parametric bootstrap with corrected and accelerated bias with 1000 repetitions. Results: We included 401 patients, 17.9% had alexithymia and 41.6% fear of COVID-19. We found statistical evidence of differences in fear of COVID-19 frequencies between patients with alexithymia (58.2%) and those without alexithymia (37.9%) (p=0.002). In the regression models, we observed an association between alexithymia and fear of COVID-19 at a crude level (PR:1.53, 95%CI: 1.2 to 1.95), adjusted by statistical criteria (aPR1: 1.58, 95%CI: 1.22 to 2.03) and adjusted for epidemiological criteria (aPR2: 1.46 95% CI: 1.13 to 1.90). Conclusions: Alexithymia increases the probability of fear of COVID-19 in adult patients living with HIV regardless of the sociodemographic, clinical, and COVID-19 history variables assessed.
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