Health Locus of Control and Neurocognitive Function in Latinx and Non-Latinx White People Living With HIV: A Cross-sectional Study

Maral Aghvinian; Emily P. Morris; Micah J. Savin; Angela C. Summers; Cara L. Crook; Jordan Stiver; Jairo Gonzalez; Desiree Byrd; Monica Rivera Mindt

doi:10.1097/JNC.0000000000000286

Health Locus of Control and Neurocognitive Function in Latinx and Non-Latinx White People Living With HIV: A Cross-sectional Study

Maral Aghvinian, Emily P. Morris, Micah J. Savin, Angela C. Summers, Cara L. Crook, Jordan Stiver, Jairo Gonzalez, Desiree Byrd, Monica Rivera Mindt

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Research suggests that health locus of control (HLOC) is related to important health and neurocognitive outcomes in people living with HIV. However, the role of ethnicity in these relationships remains poorly understood. This study explored the role of HLOC on neurocognition in a diverse sample of 134 people living with HIV (Latinx: n = 96; non-Latinx White: n = 38) who completed comprehensive neurocognitive evaluations and the Multidimensional HLOC Scale-Form C. Results indicate no ethnocultural differences in HLOC beliefs (ps >.05). External HLOC (i.e., chance and powerful others) related to worse neurocognition in the Latinx group and contributed to significant variance in global neurocognition and learning, memory, and verbal fluency, underscoring the role of external HLOC beliefs on neurocognition, particularly for Latinx individuals. Additional research is needed to better characterize the mechanistic relationship between HLOC beliefs and neurocognitive function and to further explore this relationship among other underrepresented populations also disproportionately affected by HIV.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	248-258
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Volume	33
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000286
State	Published - 1 May 2022

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HIV
Latinx
health locus of control
neurocognition
neuropsychology

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Aghvinian, M., Morris, E. P., Savin, M. J., Summers, A. C., Crook, C. L., Stiver, J., Gonzalez, J., Byrd, D., & Rivera Mindt, M. (2022). Health Locus of Control and Neurocognitive Function in Latinx and Non-Latinx White People Living With HIV: A Cross-sectional Study. Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 33(3), 248-258. https://doi.org/10.1097/JNC.0000000000000286

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