Natalie Wilson|Andrés Azuero|David E. Vance|Joshua Richman|Linda Moneyham|James L. Raper|Sonya L. Heath|Mirjam-Colette Kempf
Identifying Symptom Patterns in People Living With HIV Disease
symptoms guide disease management patients frequently report hivrelated symptoms hiv symptom patterns reported patients described era improved antiretroviral treatment objectives study investigate prevalence burden symptoms people living hiv attending outpatient clinic prevalence burden bothersomeness symptoms reported patients routine clinic visits 2011 assessed using 20item hiv symptom index principal component analysis used identify symptom clusters relationships groups using appropriate statistic techniques two main clusters identified prevalent bothersome symptoms muscle achesjoint pain fatigue poor sleep third patients seven symptoms including burdensome symptoms even improved antiretroviral drug sideeffect profiles symptom prevalence burden independent hiv viral load cd4 cell count high