Psychiatric Evaluation of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Seropositives in Armed Forces

Abstract

ABSTRAcrFifty fiYIl Armed Forces personnel detected to be seropositiv8S for human immunodeficiency virus were the subjects of the study. After baseline clinical evaluation. laboratory investigations and Centre (or Disease Control classification. through a semistructured interview. their sexual orientation, behaviour and psychiatric morbidity were assessed. Sixtynine percent had another sexually transmitted disease as comorbidity. Heterosexual contact was responsible for the infection in 54 out of 55 subjects. Seven patients were freshly diagnosed to have psychiatric illness. M}AFI 1994; 50 : 275-278