Maria Kaltsa, Despina Papadopoulou
The Processing of Lexical Ambiguity: Evidence from Child and Adult Greek
Journal of psycholinguistic research
neurocognitive impairment nci one common neurological complications hivpositive individuals particularly resourcelimited countries neurocognitive impairments occur stage hiv infection although risk increases infection progresses however africa studies highly variable inconsistent results therefore study aimed determine prevalence factors associated nci among hivpositive people africa systematic review metaanalysis used pubmedmedline scopus web science cochrane library embase psycinfo comprehensively search number papers studies reporting prevalence nci factors included estimation pooled prevalence consistent data extraction format created microsoft excel extract data imported stata 11 statistical software analysis heterogeneity evaluated using i2 test random effect metaanalysis model employed calculate pooled prevalence nci included studies showed significant heterogeneity africa pooled prevalence nci 4515 95 ci 3686 5343 according subgroup analysis study west africa lowest frequency 4240 95 ci 2203 6277 whereas central south africa highest prevalence 4933 95 ci 10728795 africa cumulative prevalence nci high woman formal education elementary education older latestage hiv abusing drugs often associated nci average burden nci africa high would significant figure interventional actions area