Journal of Psychiatry

Nibretie Mekonnen

Publications

• Research Article
  Factors Associated with Anxiety Disorder among ART Clients attending Antiretroviral Therapy Clinic at Hawassa University Referral Hospital, Hawassa, SNNPR, Ethiopia
  Author(s): Asres Bedaso, Dayanand Belagavi, Gezahegn Bekele and Nibretie MekonnenAsres Bedaso, Dayanand Belagavi, Gezahegn Bekele and Nibretie Mekonnen
  
  Introduction: Anxiety is vague, subjective, non-specific feeling of uneasiness, apprehension, tension, a sense of impending doom, irrational avoidance of objects or situation. Anxiety is one of the co-morbidities that are often overlooked in treating patients with Human Immuno Deficiency Virus. Specific prevalence of anxiety is difficult to identify as aresult of the wide variations across the globe, ranging from 7% to 82.3%. Objective: Assessment of prevalence of anxiety and associated factors among ART clients attending ART Clinic at Hawassa Universty Referral Hospital, Hawassa, SNNPR, Ethiopia. Methods and Material: Institutional based cross sectional study design was conducted from March 1 to 30/2016 among 291 patients who attended ART clinic at Hawassa University Referral Hospital. Respondents were selected using Systematic random sampling technique. SPSS 20 was used for data ent.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2378-5756.1000394

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