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Document 2928
DOCN M94A2928
TI Psychological approach to AIDS patients.
DT 9412
AU Costa LM; Azevedo RC; Estadual University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
SO Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):192 (abstract no. PB0195). Unique
Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94369647
AB OBJECTIVES: The multidisciplinarian attendance and the patient's life
graph study, their relationships, the specific situation during the
disease's early stage, evaluating how psychological factors may
influence in this moment. At the same time, to observe the importance of
approaches such as: familiar relationship, health team, depressive and
anxious reactions; first contact with the positive results of the HIV
test until disease evolution, worsening of clinical conditions, and
death. METHODS: Only HIV-positive patients are attended as well as those
with an already critical stage of the disease, put into the nursery or
as an outpatient on the Infecto-Parasitarian Diseases Department of the
Pedreo Ernesto Universitarian Hospital. Attendance is made by Medical
Psichology professionals, taking into account criteria such as patients
solicitations, previous psychiatric data or presentation of a
psychopathologic chart during clinical treatment. Patients are attended
during individual psychotherapy sessions, with a technique which
combines support and backing up, catharsis, informations, reflections,
besides interpretative approaches. All of this is in co-operation with a
psychiatric and anxious reactions, as well as psycho-organic cases and
eventually through the use of psychopharmaceuticals. During a 2-year
period, 45 patients were observed: 35 homosexuals, 4 bisexuals, 4 blood
receptors, 2 women and one intravenous drug addict, with a total of 18
demises. In 51% of the cases psychological attendance was the diagnostic
reactions. Patients were aged between 29 and 56, with 42% between 30 and
40. At the end of the treatment, 23% of the homosexual patients were
still attending to psychotherapy, with 43% of them abandoning it. It was
noticed that 40% of the deceased patients had their clinical charts
progressively weakened, though allowing psychological attendance still
the terminal phase. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Lack of information and
support is harmful to clinical cre and prevention. Patients supported in
loss situations (job, friends, body activities control and partners),
hospital interning and exams seem to apply more frequently to the
outpatient department's care and, when necessary, in a shorter interning
time. Experience with individual psychotherapy with AIDS patients
suggests more psychological attention beginning from diagnosis, passing
through the evolutive and terminal phases of the disease and making use
of these means as preventive tools with those HIV-infected though
assymptomatic. Group psychotherapy may be another means able to attend
to the internees demand. The understanding of these patients life
dimensions can be another contribution for the improving of hospital
attendance.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PSYCHOLOGY *Adaptation,
Psychological Adult AIDS Serodiagnosis/PSYCHOLOGY Brazil Female
Human HIV Seropositivity/PSYCHOLOGY Male Middle Age Patient Care
Team Psychotherapy *Sick Role Social Support MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).