Health Focused Education and Counseling for a Patient Diagnosed as HIV Positive
| Autor: | Timothy Maggio, Kate E Bousaada, Lisa-Rose Rodriguez, Thomas W. Miller, Jeanne Chadwick |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Blood transfusion Multiple Partners business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Addiction media_common.quotation_subject Psychological intervention Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medicine.disease medicine.disease_cause Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Family medicine medicine business Sexual contact media_common Patient education Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice. |
| ISSN: | 1540-580X |
| DOI: | 10.46743/1540-580x/2006.1112 |
| Popis: | AIDS is a chronic, life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Examined is a patient education and counseling model applied to a patient with AIDS. Offered is a model utilizing problem based questions, goals and objectives and applied theory that is summarized in an algorithm of care for the patient with AIDS. Stages of HIV infection are used to facilitate clinical evaluation and plan therapeutic interventions. The process of health-focuse d counseling involves a number of critical components: assessment, patient education, health focused counseling, treatment intervention, and follow-up. The use of the health focused education and counseling model has been found to be relevant and appropriate when considering the need to tailor patient education and treatment to evidenced based decisions for health professionals. The major problem in my case study is Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). AIDS is a viral infection caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that has progressed to AIDS after the infected person developed an “opportunistic” infection (OI) or tumor (one that might not have developed if HIV had not been present) or a “helper” T-cell count in the blood of less than 200 cells/mm. Levels of CD4 (helper) and CD8+ (non-helper) subsets of T cells are used to evaluate immunologic competency in HIV/AIDS. HIV can be transmitted through exchange of bodily fluids during sexual contact, by receipt of infected blood through a blood transfusion or blood products, by sharing contaminated needles for intravenous drug abuse, or from an HIV-infected mother to newborn. Persons at higher risk include homosexual or bisexual males, hemophiliacs, intravenous drug addicts, heterosexuals with multiple partners, and infants of HIV-positive mothers (especially those who are breastfed). Worldwide, an estimated 38 million people are living with HIV, nearly half of them women and girls between the ages of 15 and 24. An estimated 950,000 Americans are currently living with HIV/AIDS, up from 900,000 in 2001. Because it seems unlikely that a vaccine will be found soon, hopes for stemming the infection appear to lie for now in education, prevention and treatment. 1 |
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