Stigma never dies: Mourning a spouse who died of AIDS in China

Nancy Xiaonan Yu; Amy Y M Chow; Cecilia L W Chan; Jianxin Zhang; Sunita M. Stewart

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.10.034

Stigma never dies: Mourning a spouse who died of AIDS in China

Nancy Xiaonan Yu, Amy Y M Chow, Cecilia L W Chan, Jianxin Zhang, Sunita M. Stewart

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Abstract

Stigma towards people with HIV (PHIV) can affect their family members. In this study of 68 HIV seronegative participants in China whose spouse died of AIDS, 35.3% reported prolonged grief. Stigma beliefs towards PHIV (i.e., belief that PHIV's death leaves the deceased, the family and society better off) predicted grief symptoms. Social campaigns to combat stigma and grief therapy to reconstruct the meaning of HIV-related death may be helpful to reduce suffering in HIV bereaved.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	968-970
Number of pages	3
Journal	Psychiatry research
Volume	230
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.10.034
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

Bereavement
Prolonged grief
Stigma

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Psychiatry and Mental health
Biological Psychiatry

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