IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/clnure/v11y2002i1p71-88.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Characteristics of Nausea Reported by HIV-Infected Patients Initiating Combination Antiretroviral Regimens

Author

Listed:
  • Nancy R. Reynolds
  • Judith L. Neidig

    (Ohio State University)

Abstract

Reliable data on the incidence and severity of nausea accompanying combination antiretroviral therapies is lacking. Aprospective time series design was used to assess the rate, severity, and distress of nausea in a cohort of 75 HIV-positive patients who were beginning or changing a combination of two or more antiretroviral medications. Data were collected via telephone at weekly intervals for 12 weeks. The rate of nausea across regimens was greatest at Week 1 (39%) and declined progressively over time. By Week 12, the rate of nausea was only 5%. Severity of nausea was ranked as moderate or severe by a substantial proportion of patients through Week 10; however, nausea severity and distress were also found to diminish over time. The nausea associated with combination antiretroviral therapy is quite common and may adversely affect medication adherence. Findings indicate that clinicians should consider initiating interventions for management of antiretroviral-related nausea at baseline.

Suggested Citation

  • Nancy R. Reynolds & Judith L. Neidig, 2002. "Characteristics of Nausea Reported by HIV-Infected Patients Initiating Combination Antiretroviral Regimens," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 11(1), pages 71-88, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:11:y:2002:i:1:p:71-88
    DOI: 10.1177/105477380201100106
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/105477380201100106
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/105477380201100106?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:clnure:v:11:y:2002:i:1:p:71-88. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.