Forging Resilience to HIV/AIDS: Personal Strengths of Middle-aged and Older Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men Living With HIV/AIDS
| Autor: | Jenna Despres, Renato M. Liboro, Brandon Ranuschio, Lianne Barnes, Sherry Bell |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Gerontology Health (social science) media_common.quotation_subject Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) men who have sex with men Gay bisexual HIV Infections 050109 social psychology medicine.disease_cause Men who have sex with men resilience to HIV/AIDS Sexual and Gender Minorities 03 medical and health sciences Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) personal strengths medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Homosexuality Male Aged media_common Ontario middle-aged and older 030505 public health 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health virus diseases Middle Aged medicine.disease 3. Good health Bisexuality community-based resources Medicine Original Article Psychological resilience 0305 other medical science Psychology |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Men's Health, Vol 15 (2021) American Journal of Men's Health |
| ISSN: | 1557-9891 |
| Popis: | HIV-positive gay, bisexual, two-spirit, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) have exhibited significant resilience to HIV/AIDS in Canada since the start of the epidemic. Since 2012, most of the research that has been conducted on resilience to HIV/AIDS has utilized quantitative methods and deficits-based approaches, with a preferential focus on the plight of young MSM. In order to address apparent gaps in research on HIV/AIDS resilience, we conducted a community-based participatory research qualitative study that utilized a strengths-based approach to examine the perspectives and lived experiences of HIV-positive, middle-aged and older MSM on their individual attributes that helped forge their HIV/AIDS resilience. We conducted 41 semistructured interviews with diverse, HIV-positive, middle-aged and older MSM from Central and Southwestern Ontario, Canada. From our thematic analysis of our interviews, we identified four themes, which represented personal strengths that fostered resilience to HIV/AIDS: (a) proactiveness, (b) perseverance, (c) having the right mindset, and (d) self-awareness with self-control. This article discusses the importance of these personal strengths to fostering HIV/AIDS resilience, and how community-based resources could potentially lessen the need to muster such personal strengths, or alternatively, cultivate them. |
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