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Relative Importance of Various Measures of HIV-Related Stigma in Predicting Psychological Outcomes Among Children Affected by HIV
- Source :
- Community Mental Health Journal. 48:275-283
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- To assess the relative importance of four different measures of HIV-related stigma in predicting psychological problems among children affected by HIV in rural China. Cross-sectional data were collected from 755 orphans (i.e., children who lost one or both of their parents to HIV), 466 vulnerable children (children who were living with HIV-infected parents), and 404 comparison children who were from the same community and did not have HIV-related illness or death in their families. Four HIV-related stigma measures include perceived public stigma against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), perceived public stigma against children affected by HIV (orphans and vulnerable children), personal stigmatizing attitudes against PLWHA, and enacted stigma among children affected by HIV. Psychological problems included depression and adjustment problems. Various measures of HIV-related stigma independently and differentially contribute to children's psychological problems. Enacted stigma and children's perceived public stigma against PLWHA or children affected by HIV are generally stronger predictors of psychological problems than their own feelings or attitudes towards PLWHA. Various aspects of HIV-related stigma are important for us to understand the perception, attitudes, and experience of children affected by HIV, including both children experiencing HIV-related parental illness and death in their own family and children who were living in the communities hardly hit by HIV. Future health promotion and psychological care efforts for children affected by HIV need to consider the effect of various forms of HIV-related stigma on these children's psychosocial well-being and mobilize the community resources to mitigate the negative effect of HIV-related stigma on PLWHA and their children.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Rural Population
China
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
medicine.medical_specialty
Health (social science)
Adolescent
Social stigma
Social Stigma
Population
Self-concept
Stigma (botany)
HIV Infections
Social issues
Vulnerable Populations
Article
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Predictive Value of Tests
Adaptation, Psychological
medicine
Humans
Child
Psychiatry
education
Internal-External Control
education.field_of_study
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
virus diseases
medicine.disease
Self Concept
Psychiatry and Mental health
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health promotion
Socioeconomic Factors
Population Surveillance
Regression Analysis
Female
Perception
Child, Orphaned
Psychology
Social Adjustment
Psychosocial
Prejudice
Stress, Psychological
Clinical psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15732789 and 00103853
- Volume :
- 48
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Community Mental Health Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b363bf57ae964660e48a3827073bf88c