Does antidepressant treatment improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy among depressed HIV-infected patients?
Depression was common, and antiretroviral adherence was higher for depressed patients prescribed and adherent to ADT compared with those neither prescribed nor adherent to ADT. Attention to diagnosis and treatment of depressive disorders in this population may improve antiretroviral adherence and ultimate survival.
These results support the argument to distinguish between postinfectious IBS and CFS. The nature of the precipitating infection appears to be important, and premorbid levels of distress appear to be more strongly associated with CFS than IBS, particularly levels of depression.