The experiences of HIV-positive and HIV-negative children after receiving disclosure of their own and their parents’ illnesses, respectively

  School of Health Sciences, Walden University, Minneapolis, MN, United States
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.1328v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Epidemiology, Global Health, HIV, Pediatrics, Public Health
Keywords
HIV, HIV disclosure, Child HIV status disclosure, Parent HIV status disclosure, Psychological effects of disclosure, Post-disclosure effects, Children's HIV disclosure experiences, HIV disclosure reactions, HIV-positive children, HIV-negative children
Copyright
© 2015 Gachanja
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This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
Cite this article
Gachanja G. 2015. The experiences of HIV-positive and HIV-negative children after receiving disclosure of their own and their parents’ illnesses, respectively. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e1328v1

Abstract

The aim of this research brief is to describe a study that sought to understand the post-disclosure experiences of HIV-positive and negative children after they received disclosure of their own and their parents’ illnesses, respectively. This is the first study from Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) that describes the post-disclosure experiences of HIV-positive and negative children in one study. Prior studies in SSA have mostly centered on the post-disclosure experiences of HIV-positive children after receiving disclosure of their own illnesses, or HIV-positive mothers’ descriptions of the effect of maternal disclosure on their HIV-negative children.

Author Comment

This research brief summarizes a research article titled "A rapid assessment of post-disclosure experiences of urban HIV-positive and HIV-negative school-aged children in Kenya." The original full text open access article is located at https://peerj.com/articles/956/