Aid´s mournings
• Os lutos da aids
Tânia Regina Corrêa de Souza, Emi Shimma
JBA, São Paulo, vol. 5, nº 4, p. 145-188, julho/agosto 2004
Abstract
During our lives we face situations of losses and mournings, connected or not to death. A loss invariably brings secondary losses. And, in cases of diseases as aids, other aspects as prejudices, the fact that it is contagious and incurable (up to now) and considered as death sentence, the losses can gain larger proportions, and affect its personal, affective, social and professional life. The objective of this work is to identify the losses and the mournings that appear due to the aids and the way each individual elaborates the loss of its health. The research is being developed at the Center for Reference and Training STD/aids/São Paulo State Program of STD/aids. Ten women and ten men, aged 30 to 50 years are beeing selected, from january to may of 2002. Factors as income, education and profession will be considered in the research and interpretation of the data. Inclusion criterion: only Hiv/aids pacients under anti-retroviral treatment. Data will be collected based on a questionary with open questions. Along the research, we will search to identify stressful events related to the infection HIV/aids where the loss sensation and mourning are increased such as HIV test positive diagnosis impact; the moment of the announce the positive result to partners, friends and family; affective and social difficulties; decision to start the treatment, hospital first internation.With this work, we intend to mesure and to evaluate the objective and subjective experiences of the lived mournings, considering the various aspects of the individual life (personal, family, social, affective, professional), as according to the gender, sexual orientation and the way each one elaborates these facts. We believe that the way the individual elaborates its several mournings has a positive or negative result on the quality of its life as well as its surviving.
Key words: losses – mournings – aids – quality of life.
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