Journal of AIDS & Clinical Research

Department of Statistics, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

Publications

• Research Article   
  Casual Inference on the Assessment of the Direct and Indirect Effects of Latent Covariates on CD4 Cell Count Change among HIV Positive Adults under Treatment in the Amhara Region
  Author(s): Awoke Seyoum Tegegne*
  
  Background: The use of structural equation modeling and latent variables remains unusual in epidemiology despite its potential usefulness and assessment of causal relations. Measuring the direct and indirect effect of latent variables helps with proper intervention and for the ART program to be effective. The main objective of the current investigation was to assess causal inference of assessment of the direct and indirect effect of latent covariates on CD4 cell count change for HIV positive adults under HAART. Methods: Based on the repeated measures of CD4 cell count change data obtained in the ART section at Felege Hiwot teaching and specialized hospital, AMOS software was used for parameter estimation. The study was conducted on 792 randomly selected HIV positive adults. The data were collected by the health staff after a brief orientatio.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2795-6113.2023.14.927

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