Acceptance and disclosure of HIV status through an integrated community/home-based care program in South Africa: Original Article

International Nursing Review

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 391-397

  Ncama, B P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Community Home Based Care; Disclosure; Nursing; People Living with HIV AIDS; Quantitative Methods

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV INFECTIONS; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; NURSING EVALUATION RESEARCH; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; STEREOTYPING; TRUTH DISCLOSURE;

EID: 35448934959     PISSN: 00208132     EISSN: 14667657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-7657.2007.00560.x     Document Type: Article

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