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Knowledge Generation for the HIV‐Affected Family
Author(s) -
Brown MarieAnnette
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
image: the journal of nursing scholarship
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 80
eISSN - 1547-5069
pISSN - 0743-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1547-5069.1997.tb00998.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , explication , scope (computer science) , context (archaeology) , psychology , medicine , family medicine , epistemology , computer science , biology , paleontology , philosophy , programming language
Purpose: To examine the current literature about HIV‐affected families in regard to knowledge development and priorities for future research. Significance: The current view of HIV focuses largely on HIV‐infected individuals. There is a paucity of relevant research and a need to make explicit the priorities for knowledge generation about HIV‐affected families. Scope: HIV family literature, 1980‐1996, was reviewed and categorized and serves as the context for presenting future priorities for knowledge generation about HIV‐affected families. Priorities identified were designing and testing family‐level services; determining epidemiology of the phenomenon of HIV family caregiving; who gives care and why, what caregivers do, the outcomes of caregiving, quality of family care, and relationships Conclusions: A critical need is to address in‐depth the problems that have limited knowledge development about HIV‐affected families. This explication of issues and questions to understand HIV‐affected families can stimulate future research.