O impacto da AIDS na Saúde Mental e Qualidade de Vida de pessoas na maturidade e velhice.

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Josevânia da
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/6914
• topic: Psicologia social; Saúde mental; Maturidade - velhice; HIV- AIDS - SIDA; HIV/AIDS; Quality of life; Mental health; Maturity; Old age; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

Introduction and Objectives: What is the impact of the AIDS on the mental health and Quality of Life in people who are equal or superior the age of 50 years? This study had as General Objective to analyze the impact of AIDS on the mental health and Quality of Life on people who are equal or superior the age of 50 years for HIV (HIV+) seropositiv. Method: A number of 86 people who are equal or superior age of 50 years, HIV+ seropositiv were the participants of this study. It was composed two comparative groups: a) Group formed by 86 people HIV+ who are age below of the 50 years, in the age band of 40 49 years and b) Group formed by 86 people who are equal or superior age of the 50 years of the population in general, without the diagnosis of the HIV seropositiv. This study counted on the following instruments:1) Socio-demographic and clinical questionnaire; 2) Whoqol-HIV Brief scales; 3) Self-Reporting Questionnaire scales (SRQ-20); 4) Scale of Anxiety and Depression (HAD); and 5) Interview. For the analysis of the data originated by the socio-demographic questionnaire and the scales it was applied the descriptive and multivariate statistics analysis. The data of the interviews, the Thematic Categorical Analysis was carried out. Results: When compared with people of same age bands of the general population, the people in the maturity and in the old age with HIV/AIDS have greater damages in their mental health and in their quality of life, but they have not more damages than the people below of the 50 years HIV+. In the verification of the predictive variables, the factor Independence ( =0,414) was main the responsible for the explanation of the variance, followed by the Psychological factor (β=0, 29), and, of negative form, the Common Mental Disorders (β= -0, 20). The analysis of the participants stories counted with nine emerged categories: Infect, Diagnosis, Perception of the AIDS, AIDS in the old age, Confrontation, Support, Prejudice, Work and Perspectives. Conclusions: Living with the HIV/AIDS has its impact in some dimensions of the individual s life, contributing for the presence of Common Mental Disorders. The impact of the illness for the evaluation of the Quality of Life was verified, mainly, when compared with the people without the diagnosis of the illness, corroborating for the initial hypothesis of the study. Moreover, it has inter individual variations significant in terms of the impact of the illness for the people, despite with the same diagnostic. This variation of the impact suggests not only considering the changeable variables, such as the age, levels of CD4 or period of the disease (symptomatic or asymptomatic), a time that such variation might be related to the subjective nature of the individual s reply to a intricate interaction of inherent factors of living with the illness, as verified in the participants narratives.