What the Rest of the World Should Know About HIV: Perceptions From Adults Living With HIV in the Dominican Republic

Stonbraker, Samantha; Arcia, Adriana; Halpern, Mimi; Larson, Elaine

doi:10.1016/j.jana.2017.06.009

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“…Like our participants, other PLWH have reported HIV is preferable to conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer. For instance, Stonbraker et al identified the same sentiment in a separate study conducted at the same research site in the Dominican Republic (Stonbraker, Arcia, et al, 2017). Sadeghzadeh et al, found that Dominican participants living with type 2 diabetes felt diabetes was worse than HIV because of the extensive lifestyle modifications that diabetes requires for successful management (Sadeghzadeh et al, 2021).…”

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“If They Give Their Mind to HIV, They Don’t Last as Long”: An Explanatory Model of HIV Infection in a Limited-Resource Setting Informs Person-Centered Care

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Global Qualitative Nursing Research

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Explanatory models describe individuals’ perceptions of their illness experiences, which can guide culturally relevant care. We constructed an explanatory model of the experience of living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in the Dominican Republic. Following qualitative descriptive methodology, we conducted interviews in Spanish using a semi-structured interview guide developed using Kleinman’s explanatory model framework. Two bilingual researchers coded interview transcripts following conventional content analysis. We used deductive codes from Kleinman’s framework and inductive codes external to the framework to construct the codebook. We arranged codes by shared meaning into categories and constructed themes that reflected shared findings from inductive categories and deductive codes. Twenty-six persons living with HIV participated. They provided rich descriptions of their experiences represented by four cross-cutting themes, which informed the explanatory model. By incorporating this in-depth understanding of patients’ illness experiences into care delivery, nurses can cultivate culturally meaningful and trusting patient-centered partnerships that improve health.

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