Limitations of the study
This study has valuable insights; however, it also has some limitations. In this study, only those patients who were availing outpatient facility were included, and patients in the inpatient setting were excluded from the study. Participants with medical comorbidities were also excluded; therefore, the findings of this study might not be applicable to the patients with HIV/AIDS with other medical comorbidities. Furthermore, in Pakistan, psychological treatment is not very common and is not frequently used in many settings; therefore, most of the Pakistani population is not familiar with this kind of treatment. This was a major limitation when we tried to talk with the patients. Most of them did not know what psychological treatment is, and some left the treatment just because there was no medication involved in it for their psychological complaints. Another limitation of this study was that pregnant women were not studied.