Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care This is an RSS file. You can use it to subscribe to this data in your favourite RSS reader or to display this data on your own website or blog.

Multimorbidity with HIV: Views of Community-Based People Living with HIV and Other Chronic Conditions
People living with HIV (PLWH) experience an increase in chronic conditions with aging, but little is known about experiences of living with multimorbidity with HIV. Because early palliative care services may improve well-being for individuals with multimorbidity, we planned to test an intervention to provide these services to community-dwelling PLWH with other chronic conditions. To tailor our intervention to the target population, we conducted 4 focus groups (n = 22) that elicited health-related needs, experiences, and views regarding palliative and other health services. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 13, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Jacquelyn Slomka, Maryjo Prince-Paul, Allison Webel, Barbara J. Daly Source Type: research

Mobile Phone Ecological Momentary Assessment of Daily Stressors among People Living With HIV: Elucidating Factors Underlying Health-Related Challenges in Daily Routines
We report findings from an MHB pilot study with 32 African American, Latino/Hispanic, and White PLWH from Los Angeles. Participants reported perceived stressors in their daily routines using a smartphone Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) application. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 11, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Shu Farmer, Deborah Mindry, W. Scott Comulada, Dallas Swendeman Source Type: research

Opening Life's Gifts: Facing Death for a Second Time
Prior to the development of effective antiretroviral therapy, persons diagnosed with HIV thought they were going to die. Now, long-term survivors are contemplating death again as they age and develop other chronic diseases. The purpose of our study was to understand the experiences of adults living with HIV for 20 or more years as they faced death for a second time. Hermeneutic phenomenology guided the research as participants shared their lived experience through storytelling. Each person's story was audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 7, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Judith L. Hold, Barbara J. Blake, Michelle Byrne, Michael Varga Tags: Feature Source Type: research

Opening life ’s gifts: Facing death for a second time
Prior to the development of effective antiretroviral therapy, persons diagnosed with HIV thought they were going to die. Now, long-term survivors are contemplating death again as they age and develop other chronic diseases. The purpose of our study was to understand the experiences of adults living with HIV for 20 or more years as they faced death for a second time. Hermeneutic phenomenology guided the research as participants shared their lived experience through storytelling. Each person ’s story was audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 7, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Judith L. Hold, Barbara J. Blake, Michelle Byrne, Michael Varga Source Type: research

“I Can't Go Out”: Mobility Obstacles to Women's Access to HIV Treatment in KPK, Pakistan
We examined the role of outside mobility constraints as barriers to HIV treatment for Pakistani women living with HIV (WLWH) whose husbands were permanently living in other cities. We focused on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), which adheres to conservative social and cultural values for female mobility. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 21 WLWH. We found that women's mobility outside the home was shaped by the system of parda (seclusion) and that a husband's lack of support by not being present for clinical appointments, distance to the HIV clinic, and ages of children emerged as crucial contributors to women's outside m...
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 5, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Abubakr Saeed, Shaista Farooq Tags: Feature Source Type: research

“I can’t go out”: Mobility obstacles to women’s access to HIV treatment in KPK, Pakistan
We examined the role of outside mobility constraints as barriers to HIV treatment for Pakistani women living with HIV (WLWH) whose husbands were permanently living in other cities. We focused on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), which adheres to conservative social and cultural values for female mobility. Open-ended interviews were conducted with 21 WLWH. We found that women ’s mobility outside the home was shaped by the system of parda (seclusion) and that a husband’s lack of support by not being present for clinical appointments, distance to the HIV clinic, and ages of children emerged as crucial contributors to women’s ou...
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 5, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Abubakr Saeed, Shaista Farooq Source Type: research

Emerging needs of people living with HIV receiving community-based nursing in an Australian setting
(Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 4, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Elizabeth A. Crock, Charne Miller, Rosemary McKenzie, Nalla Burk, Judith Frecker, John E. Hall, Oscar Morata Ramirez Source Type: research

A Review of Risk behaviors for HIV infection by men who have sex with men through geosocial networking phone apps
The purpose of our review was to analyze the relationship between the use of geosocial networking phone apps and risk behaviors for HIV infection in men who have sex with men (MSM). The review was guided by the question: Does the use of geosocial networking apps to find sex partners increase risk behaviors for HIV infection by MSM? We searched the databases PubMed, Web of Science, CINAHL, and LILACS, considering primary studies published up to December 2015, without any time restraint. All 14 studies that met our search criteria analyzed sexual behaviors in relation to sociocultural and economic characteristics, number of ...
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - April 4, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Artur Acelino Francisco Luz Nunes Queiroz, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Telma Maria Evangelista de Araújo, Francisco Braz Milanez de Oliveira, Master, Maria Eliete Batista Moura, Renata Karina Reis Source Type: research

HIV provider experiences engaging and retaining patients in HIV care and treatment: “A soft place to fall”
We present qualitative data from 30 HIV care providers in three cities. We identified three facilitators to HIV care: providing a medical home, team-based care and strategies for engaging and retaining patients in HIV care, and focus on provider-patient relationships. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Deborah J. Gelaude, Jamie Hart, James W. Carey, Damian Denson, Clarke Erickson, Cynthia Klein, Alejandra Mijares, Nicole Pitts, Theresa Spitzer Source Type: research

The acceptability and potential utility of cognitive training to improve working memory in persons living with HIV: A preliminary randomized trial
HIV-associated neurocognitive impairments that impact daily function persist in the era of effective antiretroviral therapy. Cognitive training, a promising low-cost intervention, has been shown to improve neurocognitive functioning in some clinical populations. We tested the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of computerized cognitive training to improve working memory in persons living with HIV infection (PLWH) and working memory impairment. In this randomized clinical trial, we assigned 21 adult PLWH to either an experimental cognitive training intervention or an attention-matched control training inter...
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 30, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Sheri L. Towe, Puja Patel, Christina S. Meade Source Type: research

Quality of Life among Women Living with HIV in Rural India
A cross-sectional examination was conducted on Quality of Life (QOL) among Women Living with HIV (WLWH) in rural Andhra Pradesh, India. Baseline data were collected from 400 WLWH and their children. QOL was measured with 10 items from the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire. Findings revealed low QOL scores; on a scale from 0 to 3, the mean QOL score was 0.38 (SD = 0.30). Depression symptoms were reported by 25.5%, internalized stigma was high, and most reported little to no social support. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 24, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Adeline M. Nyamathi, Maria Ekstrand, Kartik Yadav, Padma Ramakrishna, Elsa Heylen, Catherine Carpenter, Sarah Wall, Tanya Oleskowicz, Lenore Arab, Sanjeev Sinha Source Type: research

Continuing links between Substance use and HIV Highlight the Importance of Nursing Roles
Links between HIV and substance use were identified early in the U.S. HIV epidemic. People who use drugs are at risk of HIV infection through shared injection equipment and risky sexual behaviors. In addition, substance use has negative health consequences for people living with HIV. The prescription opioid misuse epidemic, linked to injection drug use, hepatitis C infection, and HIV, poses a new threat to declining HIV rates. We reviewed evidence-based interventions that decrease HIV risk in people who use drugs (needle/syringe programs, medication-assisted treatment, engagement in HIV care, and PrEP/PEP). (Source: Journa...
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 24, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Sherry Deren, Madeline Naegle, Holly Hagan, Danielle C. Ompad Source Type: research

Predatory Publishing: A Growing Threat to HIV Nursing?
Over the last 36  years, nurses have seen tremendous scientific advances that have transformed HIV infection from a fatal disease to a chronic, manageable condition. Now that our patients are living longer, HIV nurses have focused their attention on generating, translating, and disseminating scientifically sound kn owledge that will improve patient quality of life and self-management skills; however, HIV nursing science, as well as all scientific domains, is being threatened by the continuing surge of predatory publishing. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 22, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Michael V. Relf, Barbara Swanson Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

HIV stigma, retention in care, and adherence among older Black women living with HIV
Stigma is recognized as a barrier to the prevention, care, and treatment of HIV, including engagement in the HIV care continuum. HIV stigma in older Black women may be compounded by pre-existing social inequities based on gender, age, and race. Using semi-structured interviews and survey questionnaires, we explore experiences of HIV stigma, retention in care, and antiretroviral therapy (ART) adherence in 35 older Black women with HIV from Prince George ’s County, Maryland. Study findings indicated that older Black women experienced high levels of HIV stigma, retention in care, and ART adherence. (Source: Journal of the A...
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 17, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Thurka Sangaramoorthy, Amelia M. Jamison, Typhanye V. Dyer Source Type: research

Psychosocial aspects of ART counseling: A comparison of HIV beliefs and knowledge in PMTCT and ART-na ïve women
Antiretroviral therapy (ART)-readiness counseling has been deemed critical to adherence, instilling knowledge, and promoting positive beliefs and attitudes. In the landscape of changing policy in South Africa, some ART initiators have had prior ART-readiness counseling (e.g., for prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission [PMTCT] programs). The extent to which previous counseling resulted in retained knowledge and belief is unknown, which may be important to the promotion of women ’s ART adherence. (Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care)
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - March 14, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Hetta Gouse, Michelle Henry, Reuben N. Robbins, Javier Lopez-Rios, Claude A. Mellins, Robert H. Remien, John A. Joska Source Type: research