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DOCN M94A1988
TI Children and HIV/AIDS: emotional indicators mediating children's
understanding of their disease.
DT 9412
AU Mendez I; Mendez S; Serafin M; Torres-Ortiz P; Pediatric AIDS Services,
San Juan AIDS Institute.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):406 (abstract no. PD0232). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370587
AB OBJECTIVES: This is part of an ongoing study looking at pediatric
HIV/AIDS patients. The study measured levels of emotional distress and
stressors among Puerto Rican children carrying the HIV virus. It
associated these stressors with their knowledge of having the disease
and their capacity to cognitively understand them. The data provides an
emotional, cognitive and developmental map that will inform health care
providers about the necessary information to handle the psychosocial
aspects mediating the case-management of the HIV infected child.
METHODS: A sample of 22 children attending a health care facility
participated in the study. They were administered two instruments: the
Bender Visual Motor Gestalt and the Human Figure Drawing Test using
Koppitz norms. These were analyzed in terms of emotional indicators.
These results were correlated with: 1) seropositivity status; 2) disease
progression and 3) knowledge or lack of knowledge of having the disease.
RESULTS: As expected, visits to health care providers are a major
stressor in these children lives which can contribute to their emotional
well-being. The younger asymptomatic children exhibited less emotional
indicators regardless of their knowledge about the disease. Older,
asymptomatic children exhibited significantly more emotional indicators
and scored a lower developmental age. Knowledge of having the disease
plays an unsignificant role among asymptomatic children but affects more
seriously symptomatic ones. CONCLUSION: The assessment of emotional
well-being is a central issue in the case management of the HIV infected
child. Emotional well-being is at the core of defining their
understanding and their constructions of their illness. A careful
assessment of emotional status should be undertaken in conjunction to
their medical care as it will reveal to health care providers how to
minimize and alleviate the stress produced by illness and by medical
treatment.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/*PSYCHOLOGY
Bender-Gestalt Test Child *Emotions Human HIV
Infections/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/*PSYCHOLOGY HIV
Seropositivity/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY/*PSYCHOLOGY *Knowledge, Attitudes,
Practice Neuropsychological Tests Puerto Rico Stress,
Psychological/PREVENTION & CONTROL MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).