Elaboração, validação e aplicação de um instrumento para caracterização de uma população com 50 anos ou mais portadora do HIV/aids / Development, validation and application of an instrument for characterization of a population from 50 years old on with HIV/aids

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

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The epidemic caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) represents a global phenomenon, dynamic and unstable, which form of occurrence in different regions of the world depends on, among other determinants, individual and collective human behavior. In order to obtain basis to provide education to contribute improving the care provided to elderly HIV/AIDS positive or not, the developed research was composed of 2 stages. First, aimed to develop and validate tools to study the characterization of population from 50 years old and on HIV/AIDS positive. The Kendall coefficient of concordance and the Cochran test were applied to check the agreement among judges regarding the pertinent, clarity and range of the questions that compose the instrument. A disagreement was noticed among the experts at the first moment of validation and after a recasting an agreement was reached in the second validation. The instrument for characterization of that population was validated regarding its content and was used for development of the second stage of the study. Second, aimed to feature the socio-demographic and clinical population, identify health behaviors, beliefs and attitudes about the illness and treatment of a population from 50 years old and on HIV positive. In order to describe the profile of the population descriptive statistics and charts with frequencies and percentages were applied. In order to verify the association between two categorical variables the chi-square or Fisher s Exact, and Kappa were applied. For the analysis of a continuous and a categorical variable, we used the Mann-Whitney test and the adopted level of significance was 5%, that means, p-value £ 0.05. As a result, there was a slight predominance of males, relation between education level and abandonment of treatment, disagreement between the patient belief of having an opportunistic illness and what is registered in his medical records, predominance of people who are sexually active contaminated mainly through sexual relation and do not use drugs for sexual stimulation, did not use to protect themselves during the sexual relation before being aware of their contamination but currently do it. Those men did not use condoms for not having one available at the moment of the sexual relation, while women did not use it due to the confidence they had in their sexual partners. The study led to some important data in order to plan the reception and assistance to the patient from 50 years old and on HIV /AIDS positive or not, as well as evidenced that population sexual vitality

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validação de metodo hiv (virus) aids hiv aids (doença) nursing enfermagem validation method

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