Psycho-social experiences and coping among caregivers of people living with HIV/AIDS in the North-West province of South Africa

South African Journal of Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 130-139

  Amoateng, Acheampong Yaw ^a   Kalule Sabiti, Ishmael ^a   Oladipo, Samuel E ^a  

^a NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Caregivers; Coping resources; North West province; Psycho social; PWLHA

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921769107     PISSN: 00812463     EISSN: 2078208X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0081246314556566     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Akintola, O. (2006). Gendered home-based care in South Africa: More trouble for the troubled. African Journal of AIDS Research, 13, 237-247.
2. Barnett, T., & Whiteside, A. (2002). AIDS in the twenty-first century: Disease and globalization. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
3. Chepngeno-Langat, G., & Evandrou, M. (2013). Transitions in care-giving and health dynamics of caregivers for people with AIDS: A prospective study of caregivers in Nairobi Slums, Kenya. Journal of Aging and Health, 25, 678-700.
4. CIA World Factbook (2012). HIV/AIDS Adult Prevalence Rate. Retrieved from https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2155.html.
5. Collins, D. L., & Leibbrandt, M. (2007). The financial impact of HIV/AIDS on poor households in South Africa. AIDS, 21(7), 75-81.
6. Coombe, C. (2002). Mitigating the impact of HIV/AIDS on education supply demand and quality. In A.G. Cornia (Ed.) AIDS Policy and Child Wellbeing. Florence: UNICEF.
7. Draper, P., & Keith, J. (1992). Cultural contexts of care: Family caregiving for elderly in America and Africa. Journal of Aging Studies, 6, 113-134.
8. Fife, B. L., & Wright, E. R. (2000). The dimensionality of stigma: A comparison of its impact on the self of persons with HIV/AIDS and cancer. Journal of Health & Social Behaviour, 41, 50-67.
9. Giddens, A. (1984). The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
10. Kohli, R., Purohit, V., Karve, L., Bhalerao, V., Karvande, S., Rangan, S., . . .Sahay, S. (2012). Caring for caregivers of people living with HIV in the family: A response to the HIV pandemic from two urban slum communities in Pune, India. PLoS ONE, 7(9): e44989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0044989
11. Li, L., Lin, C., Wu, Z., Wu, S., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Detels, R., & Jia, M. (2007). Stigmatization and shame: Consequences of caring for HIV/AIDS patients in China. AIDS Care, 19, 258-263.
12. Majumdar, B., & Mazaleni, N. (2010). The experiences of people living with HIV/AIDS and of their direct informal caregivers in a resource-poor setting. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 13, 13-20.
13. Newman, C. J., Fogarty, L., Makoae, L. N., & Reavely, E. (2011). Occupational segregation, gender essentialism and male primacy as major barriers to equity in HIV/AIDS care-giving: Findings from Lesotho. International Journal for Equity Health, 10, Article 24.
14. Ogden, J., Esim, S., & Grown, C. (2006). Expanding the care continuum for HIV/AIDS: bringing carers into focus. Health Policy Plan, 21: 333-342.
15. Ortner, P. (2006). Psychosocial impacts on caregivers of people living with AIDS. AIDS Care, 13, 236-240. doi:10.1080/09540120500456565
16. Raniga, T., & Motloung, S. (2013). The economic and psycho-social experiences and coping resources of family members caring for people living with AIDS in their homes in Bhambayi, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. Social Work, 49, 87-100.
17. Remien, R. H., & Rabkin, J. G. (2001). Psychological aspects of living with HIV disease: A primary care perspective. West Journal of Medicine, 175, 332-335.
18. Rubin, A., & Babbie, E. R. (2009). Research methods for social work (7th ed.). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning.
19. Sowel, R., Seals, B., Moneyham, L., Guillory, J., & Mizuno, Y. (1999). Experiences of violence in HIV seropositive women in the South-Eastern United States of America. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 30, 606-615.
20. Statistics South Africa. (2013). Statistical release P0302, mid-year population estimates 2013. Available from www.statssa.gov.za
21. Steinberg, M., Johnson, S., Schierhout, G., & Ndegwa, D. (2002). Hitting home: How households cope with the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic (A survey of households affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa). Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Retrieved from http://www.kff.org/southafrica/20021125a-index.cfm
22. United Nations Agency for AIDS (UNAIDS). (2000). AIDS: Palliative care (UNAIDS Technical Update). Retrieved from http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2000/a71184.pdf
23. United Nations Agency for AIDS (UNAIDS). (2011). World Aids Day Report. Regional Fact Sheet. http://www.unaids.org/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/factsheet/2011/20111121-FS-WAD2011-regional-en.pdf
24. United Nations Agency for AIDS (UNAIDS). (2012). Progress reports submitted by countries [online database]. Geneva. Retrieved from http://www.unaids.org/cpr
25. Van Dyk, A. (2005). HIV/AIDS care and counselling: A multidisciplinary approach. Cape Town, South Africa: Maskew Miller Longman.
26. Williams, L., & Wilkins (2008). The economic impacts of HIV/AIDS on households and economies. AIDS, 22, 587-588.
27. World Bank. (2002). Education and HIV/AIDS: A window of hope. Washington, DC: World Bank.