Correlates of Hope and Depression among People Living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Chhattisgarh State Singh Bansh Gopal1, Pandey Deepak2,* 1Prof., Vice Chancellor, Pt. Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India 2ICSSR-Post Doctoral Fellow, Pt. Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India *Corresponding Author: Dr. Deepak Pandey, ICSSR-Post Doctoral Fellow, Pt. Sundarlal Sharma (Open) University Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur, India, Email: deepakpandey985@yahoo.in, deepakpandey985@gmail.com
Online published on 21 February, 2019. Abstract Depression is one of the most usually diagnosed psychiatric disorders among AIDS patients. The objective of this study was to explore hope and depression among people living with HIV/AIDS under follow up in ART center Bilaspur. Purposive sampling technique was the method adopted in the study for data collection. Study was conducted between June to December 2017 on 133 (69 Male & 64 Female) respondents under antiretroviral therapy (ART). Depression Scale and Hope Scale were the tools used in the study for data collection. Results analyzed using advanced statistical software Smart PLS v3 with variance based Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. The outcome of the analysis found that R2 coefficient of the model is 0.463 (P < 0.01) which indicates that the developed model has a significant impact on depression. Furthermore, the mediating variable hope was found to have significant effect on the link between education and depression, income and depression respectively. However, age and gender did not contribute significantly. Top Keywords Hope, Depression, Antiretroviral therapy, HIV/AIDS, Structural equation model. Top |