Despite enormous research on the experience of living with HIV, many questions remain regarding self-disclosure of HIV status to sexual partners by people living with HIV (PLWHIV), which is essential to reducing further infection. In this study, a phenomenological approach captured the experience of self-disclosure among South Africans living with HIV in Louwsburg, South Africa. The health belief model served as a theoretical framework, and in-depth interviews were conducted with 12 PLWHIV (8 women, 4 men) who self-disclosed their HIV status to their sexual partners. Their experiences were explored, discovering their illness, motives for self-disclosure, feelings regarding disclosing, responses of their sexual partners, their emotional reaction, and about their medical care. The themes rose from interviews showed that (a) many PLWHIV are reluctant to self-disclose until they actively experienced health issues; (b) motives for disclosure include the wish to ensure fairness; support and to empower other PLWHIV to prevent further infection; (c) feelings of disclosure are primarily relief and liberation, even though risks remain, especially for families separated by labor migration laws; (d) the response of sexual partners to disclosure varies widely; some are motivated to get tested and use condoms, decline and respond only with anger, blame, even abandonment; and (e) after accessing medical care, most PLWHIV reported support and appearing less sick, which reduces social stigma. The women were more open, forthcoming, and transparent about disclosing than men participants. Findings will assist with the creation of future health education programs aimed at creating safe environments to disclose HIV status, which may reduce community risk of contracting the virus.

Economic sanctions are a tool of achieving peace and have become increasingly important in research lately, as it is a more current question than ever. With the Russian war on Ukraine, countries have been sending sanctions in the hopes of financially straining Russia. The purpose of the study is to investigate how sending sanctions to a main trading partner is associated with the economic development of the sender. The study was based on the gravity model as well as economic development determinants. We employed a panel data analysis regarding 19 countries. A Fixed Effect model was used in order to regress the relationship between sending sanctions and the economic development of the sanctioning states economy between the years 1990 and 2021. At a 5% significance level, we did not find any correlation between annual growth of Gross Domestic Product per capita and sanctioned years, however the findings showed that there was a statistically significant negative correlation between sending sanctions and the economic growth of the sender at a 10% significance level. Governmental institutions can use these findings to carefully consider sanction decisions and their potential impact on the economy in the future.

We explored how individuals high in narcissism maintained positive self-evaluations when faced with threats from romantic partners, and the role of attentiveness to attractive alternatives in self-evaluation maintenance. Participants and their romantic partners completed surveys measuring narcissism, closeness, attention to alternative partners, and IQ tests. They were given false feedback concerning their performance on the IQ tasks in relation to their partners, then asked to take additional surveys measuring closeness change. Ultimately, there was no significant connection between narcissism and reduction of closeness following a threat. Attention to alternative partners did not act as a mediator between narcissism and closeness reduction. Couples-level analyses yielded that couples with higher narcissism reported lower closeness. There was also a significant narcissism by condition interaction, with highly narcissistic couples in the non-threat condition reporting lower closeness scores than highly narcissistic couples who were in the threat condition. Limitations and future directions are discussed.

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Bakgrund: En stor del av världen befolkning lever med någon form avdemenssjukdom. Sexualitet är en grund för människors hälsa och välbefinnande oavsettom personer har en demenssjukdom eller inte. Trots detta är sexualitet i samband meden demenssjukdom ett tabubelagt ämne. Tabun har en negativ påverkan på personermed demenssjukdoms omvårdnad i samband med sexualitet.Syfte: Beskriva upplevelser relaterat till sexualitet hos personer med demenssjukdomsamt deras närstående.Metod: Detta är en beskrivande litteraturstudie som bygger på 10 vetenskapliga artiklarinom ämnet. Författarna har använt sig av en relevansmall och enkvalitetsgranskningsmall för att identifiera relevanta artiklar att ta med i studien. Entematisk metodanalys användes för att identifiera fem huvudteman.Huvudresultat: Kunskapsluckor kring ämnet som finns för vårdpersonal bidrar till attupprätthålla tabun kring ämnet. Även fast sexuella behov i form av samlag inte längre ärlika prioriterat som förr, finns behovet ändå kvar. Vänskap, närhet och kärlek har fått enstörre innebörd. Vårdhem i dagens samhälle är inte anpassade och accepterande för attbibehålla sexualitet hos personer med demenssjukdom samt deras närstående. HBTQI+personer upplever att dem inte kan uttrycka och identifiera sig som dem är utan att derasvård påverkas.Slutsats: För personer med demenssjukdom och dess närstående finns fortfarandebehovet av sexualitet kvar efter en demensdiagnos. Däremot finns en stor tabu kringämnet sexualitet och äldre. Denna tabu är större när det kommer till sexualitet ochpersoner med demenssjukdom. Tabun grundar sig i kunskapsbrist hos vårdpersonal ochgenom denna litteraturstudie vill författarna lyfta tabun och bidra till att vårdpersonalenfår den utbildning de behöver. Det har framkommit i resultatet att miljön på vårdheminte är anpassade för att äldre och demenssjuka personer ska kunna bibehålla sinsexualitet. Detta både i form av en fysisk miljö i form av möblering men även i enstämning på vårdhemmen som inte ger utrymme för sexualitet. Genom attvårdpersonalen får korrekt utbildning kan detta bidra till att vårdhemsmiljöer anpassasoch blir mer accepterande, i förhållande till sexualitet.Nyckelord: Demens, Närstående, Partners, Sexualitet, Upplevelser.

The purpouse with this litterature review is to investigate how women diagnosed with fibromyalgia handle their disease and what it implicates for a partner. The questions are: How do women suffering from fibromyalgia experience and deal with their daily life? What does it mean to live with a person diagnosed with fibromyalgia? In order to answer these question, scientific articles were reviewed and then analyzed with an inductive approach. The analysis generated three themes concerning women's experiences and dealing with fibromyalgia: losses/adjustment, changed relationships, lack of knowledge and three themes describing partners' experiences: increased responsibility/new tasks, changed relationships and lack of knowledge. / Syftet med denna litteraturstudie är att undersöka hur kvinnor med diagnosen fibromyalgi upplever och hanterar sin sjukdom samt vad den innebär för en partner. Frågeställningarna är: Hur upplever och hanterar kvinnor med fibromyalgi sin sjukdom i sitt dagliga liv? Vad innebär det att leva med någon som har diagnosen fibromyalgi? För att få svar på dessa frågor granskades vetenskapliga artiklar som sedan analyserades med en induktiv ansats. Genom analysen genererades tre teman angående kvinnors upplevelse och hantering av fibromyalgi: förluster/anpassning, förändrade relationer, bristande kunskap och tre teman som beskrev partners upplevelse: ökat ansvar/nya uppgifter, förändrade relationer och bristande kunskap.

For years, researchers, clinicians, and those working with victims/survivors of domestic abuse have overlooked the issue of same-sex partner aggression among lesbians and bisexual women. Through in-depth interviews with 19 women who identify themselves as either lesbian or bisexual, information was documented in this study demonstrating the severity of issues of power and control among some same-sex partners, as well as some if the dynamics that are unique to same-sex abusive relationships. Patterns of abuse within same-sex relationships often mirror those that are so commonly associated with partner aggression among heterosexual couples, and therefore demonstrate not only the need for further research on the topic of same-sex partner abuse, but also the urgency to provide more assistance to the victims/survivors of domestic violence.

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