Attention and concentration functions in HIV-positive adolescents who are on anti-retroviral treatment.
| dc.contributor.author | Rice, Jessica Dawn | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-26T07:28:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-02-26T07:28:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-02-26 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Approximately 11.5 million Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive individuals were living in South Africa in 2007, many of whom were infected via mother-to-child transmission. The current study aimed to compare the attentional and concentration functioning of 30 seropositive adolescents on managed anti-retroviral (ARV) programmes, with a comparable group of 71 seronegative adolescents. The results showed that the uncorrected errors on trial 1; self-corrected errors on trial 2; time taken, uncorrected and self-corrected errors on trial 3 of the Stroop Colour-Word Interference Test; and the errors on the Trail Making Test Part B were significantly poorer in the seropositive sample. The results also indicated that the clinical variations in the HIV-positive sample, including the age at which ARVs were commenced; duration of ARV treatment; World Health Organisation (WHO) stage at diagnosis; starting and current CD4+ counts; and starting viral load, but with the exception of the current viral load, impacted significantly on test performance. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net10539/13958 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | HIV-positive youth--South Africa. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Antiretroviral agents--South Africa. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Attention. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Neuropsychology. | |
| dc.title | Attention and concentration functions in HIV-positive adolescents who are on anti-retroviral treatment. | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |
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