Abstract

HERRERA TRAVIESO, Delia Mercedes. Psychosocial risk factors in children infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS in Cuba, in 2004. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2007, vol.45, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3003.

OBJECTIVE: to identify the psychosocial risk factors in boys and girls infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. METHODS: a descriptive study was conducted in a population of 366 boys and girls infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS in Cuba during 2004. It was done a survey that included the following variables: conditions of the family environment, conditions of the school setting, and conditions of the community. RESULTS: the parents who died of HIV/AIDS and the sick accounted for 17,8 and 60,4 %, respectively; the big and enlarged families represented 78,7 %; 76,8 % attended school; 17,6 % of them feel themselves discriminated for being infected and/or affected by HIV/AIDS and 8,2 % have suffered discrimination in the community. CONCLUSIONS: the higher number of sick parents, the little support of the community, as well as the discrimination at school and in the community were among the psychosocial risk factors identified. Other results of interest were the predominance of extensive and enlarged families and the elevated attendance to school.

Keywords : Children; infected by HIV/AIDS; affected by HIV/AIDS; orphans.

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