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The psychosocial needs of people with HIV and AIDS: a view from nurse educators and counsellors
Author(s) -
Burnard Philip
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1993.18111779.x
Subject(s) - psychosocial , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , nursing , psychology , medicine , family medicine , psychotherapist
AIDS is an increasingly urgent issue for clinical nurses, managers and for nurse educators This paper describes the analysis of part of a set of interviews with a purposive sample of 21 AIDS counsellors, nurse educators and other health care workers In particular, responses to the question ‘What are the psychosocial needs of the person diagnosed as HIV‐positive or who has AIDSγ’ are discussed The paper begins with a brief description of the study and then offers a more detailed description of the method of analysis used to obtain the findings These are then reported within 16 categories Psychosocial problems identified included issues of emotion, acceptance, a variety of fears, stigma, issues relating to insurance and travel, health care facilities and the attitudes of the Church