Food meanings in HIV and AIDS caregiving trajectories: Ritual, optimism and anguish among caregivers in Lesotho

Psychology, Health and Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-202

  Makoae, Mokhantšo G ^a  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

AIDS caregiving; eating related stress; food meanings; stress proliferation

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVER; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LESOTHO; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMBOLISM;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CAREGIVERS; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; COST OF ILLNESS; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GOALS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; LESOTHO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYMBOLISM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951782592     PISSN: 13548506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13548506.2010.525656     Document Type: Article

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