Positive Psychological Factors and Life Themes in Relation to Health Outcomes in Women Living with HIV

This mixed methods study identified positive psychological factors and life themes expressed in autobiographical narratives of predominantly Black women living with HIV (WLWH) and investigated these in relation to depressive symptoms, antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence (≥ 95% of time), and undetectable HIV viral load (VL) (< 80 copies/ml). Ninety-eight WLWH from the Women’s Interagency HIV Study Chicago site (M age = 45.3; 91% Black)...