Abstract
Background Inattention to symptoms of mental disorders and substance abuse in patients with HIV/AIDS and other at risk groups, may lead to irreversible damages. Present research aimed at comparison of psychopathological dimensions in substance abusers with and without HIV/AIDS and healthy matched groups. Methods In a cross-sectional and analytical study, selected samples by available, consecutive, and objective methods were 43 HIV positive substance abusers, 49 HIV negative substance abusers under Methadone Maintenance Therapy (MMT) in counselling clinic of behavioural diseases and addiction abandonment and 45 ordinary individuals. All of them were evaluated by matched confounding variables via symptom check list-90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Results analysed by chi-square (χ2), independent t test, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Gabriel post hoc. Results Findings indicated significant difference between these groups in Global Severity Index (GSI), Positive Symptom Distress Index (PSDI) and Positive Symptom Total (PST) (P Conclusion Comorbidity of substance abuse and HIV diagnosis intensify mental disorders symptoms. Moreover, lack of prevention and implementation of appropriate psychological and psychiatric interventions after substance abuse and HIV lead to extended establishment of mental disorders symptoms. Some implications of these results are discussed results may direct future researches.
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