Journal article
Perceived Benefits and Drawbacks of Disclosure Practices: An Analysis of PLWHAs' Strategies for Disclosing HIV Status
Journal of health communication, Vol.20(11), pp.1294-1301
11/02/2015
DOI: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1018640
PMID: 26075594
Abstract
People living with HIV/AIDS must make decisions about how, where, when, what, and to whom to disclose their HIV status. This study explores their perceptions of benefits and drawbacks of various HIV disclosure strategies. The authors interviewed 53 people living with HIV/AIDS from a large AIDS service organization in a northeastern U.S. state and used a combination of deductive and inductive coding to analyze disclosure strategies and advantages and disadvantages of disclosure strategies. Deductive codes consisted of eight strategies subsumed under three broad categories: mode (face-to-face, non-face-to-face, and third-party disclosure), context (setting, bringing a companion, and planning a time), and content (practicing and incremental disclosure). Inductive coding identified benefits and drawbacks for enacting each specific disclosure strategy. The discussion focuses on theoretical explanations for the reasons for and against disclosure strategy enactment and the utility of these findings for practical interventions concerning HIV disclosure practices and decision making.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Perceived Benefits and Drawbacks of Disclosure Practices: An Analysis of PLWHAs' Strategies for Disclosing HIV Status
- Creators
- Danielle Catona - Department of Communication, Rutgers UniversityKathryn Greene - Department of Communication, Rutgers UniversityKate Magsamen-Conrad - Department of Communication, Bowling Green State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of health communication, Vol.20(11), pp.1294-1301
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/10810730.2015.1018640
- PMID
- 26075594
- ISSN
- 1081-0730
- eISSN
- 1087-0415
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/02/2015
- Academic Unit
- Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984002368102771
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