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May 12, 2025
Does Discrimination Against Individuals with HIV+ Impact Pain?
By Myles Starr
More than half of all people with HIV will experience nonmalignant chronic pain throughout their lives. Recent data indicate people with HIV who experience stigma score higher on assessments of pain than those who do not (J Pain 2025 Feb:27:104746. doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2024.104746).
“What is important to note [from this study] is that reducing HIV stigma is always a worthy effort, and could even serve to reduce pain in this population, though we can't say that for sure as this study was cross-sectional and we can't infer causality,” explained author Liana S. E. Hone, MPH, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Health Education and Behavior at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Researchers analyzed two studies of PWH. In the first study, 840 participants completed the Enacted Stigma Scale and the Brief Pain Inventory. There was a significant positive association between HIV stigma and pain severity, as well as between sexual orientation and pain severity. However, no interaction effect between the two variables was found. In the second study, 309 participants completed the Internalized Stigma Scale and the Brief Pain Inventory. No relationship was detected between HIV stigma and pain severity.
Continue reading... https://www.idse.net/HIV-AIDS/Article/05-25/Does-Discrimination-Against-Individuals-with-HIV-Impact-Pain/77110
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