published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Clinical Psychology / Master / Master of Social Sciences

A group of five HIV-positive gay men were compared with a group of five HIV-negative gay men. All participants were currently engaged in therapy. Participants completed the Session Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) and the Session Impacts Scale (SIS) in order to determine what these different groups of individuals felt was helpful or hindering in therapy. Results indicated that both groups of participants found therapy to be powerful, valuable, and helpful in that they: (a) learned something new about themselves or others, (b) changed their ways of thinking, (c) acquired insight into issues, (d) were more clear about their feelings, (e) were able to define their problems, and (f) were feeling understood, supported, and close to their counsellor. In comparison to the HIV-negative group, the HIV-positive group experienced many hindering aspects to counselling. Seropositive participants felt: (a) less understood, supported, and close to their counsellor, (b) more confused, or distracted in counselling, (c) more bothered by unpleasant thoughts in counselling, (d) more impatient or doubting of the value of therapy, and (e) felt more angry, more afraid, and less confident during and as a result of therapy. Implications for counselling are discussed.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. Roger Bakeman, committee chair; James Emshoff, John Peterson, Gabriel Kuperminc, committee members. Electronic text (100 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Apr. 24, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 90-100).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006. / Title from file title page. Lisa Armistead, committee chair; Gregory Jurkovic, Sarah Cook, Marci Culley, committee members. Electronic text (67 p. : col. ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 9, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-67).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Johannesburg, 2013 / Pain is one of the most frequent and debilitating symptoms in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infected individuals. With Southern Africa being the region with the highest population of HIV-infected individuals, I set out to determine whether the pain intensity, prevalence and management strategies that have been reported in other, non-African, countries are similar to that in South African patients. South Africa has eleven official languages, with nine of those being native languages. Also, there is a high level of illiterate people in the country, thus, for better assessment of the pain I translated the Wisconsin Brief Pain Questionnaire into five frequently spoken local languages. Using the translated questionnaires I investigated the prevalence, intensity and management of pain in ambulatory HIV-positive outpatients attending a metropolitan (n = 396) or rural (n = 125) clinic. I also assessed whether this pain changes over time in a subset of 92 metropolitan patients. Seventy-two percent of rural participants and 56% of metropolitan participants had pain at the time of the interview, and this pain was moderate to severe in intensity in 60% of affected rural participants and 59% of affected metropolitan participants. In the rural cohort, use of antiretroviral therapy was independently associated with the reduced risk of pain [prevalence ratio (95% CI): 0.7 (0.5-0.9)] while in the metropolitan cohort increasing age was weakly, but independently associated with having pain [prevalence ratio (95% CI): 1.01 (1.005-1.012)]. Pharmacological management of pain was poor, with 29% of rural participants and 55% of metropolitan participants with pain not receiving any treatment. Of those receiving treatment, no participants were receiving strong opioids, and only 3% of metropolitan participants were receiving a weak opioid. On a positive side, the pain that South African HIV-infected individuals endure decreases over time. Seventy-eight patients out of the subsample cohort consisting of 92 patients reported pain at the time of the first interview. Of the 78 patients who were in pain at visit 1, 48 were still in pain six months later with 36 of those not prescribed any form of analgesics. Thus I found a decrease in moderate and severe intensity pain to mild and moderate pain, respectively, from visit 1 to visit 2. Of the 78 patients that were in pain at visit 1, only 5% received some form of analgesic therapy. Forty-eight of the 78 patients were still in pain six months later, and of those, 25% were being prescribed some form of analgesics at visit 2. There were no changes in the pain-related interference over a six month period in patients who were in pain at visit 1 and visit 2. Therefore, as it has been reported previously for other developed and developing countries, pain in HIV-positive South Africans is common and is under-treated. Also, there are decreases in the pain intensity, pain prevalence, the number of pain sites over a period of six months. These decreases were evident in patients who were on HAART for the duration of six months as compared to those who were not on HAART for six month.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Lehigh University, 2000. / Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 83-100).

Dissertation (Ph.D.) -- The Institute for Clinical Social Work, 2007. / A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Institute of Clinical Social Work in partial fulfillment for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Thesis (M.A,)--George Mason University, 2008. / Vita: p. 69. Thesis director: Gregory Guagnano. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Sociology. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 28, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-68). Also issued in print.