TY - JOUR
T1 - The Daily Lives of People With HIV Infection
T2 - A Qualitative Study of the Control Group in an Expressive Writing Intervention
AU - Metaweh, Maria
AU - Ironson, Gail
AU - Barroso, Julie
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by National Institutes of Health/National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Grant R01AT002035, G. Ironson, PI. Maria Metaweh extends gratitude to the two influential women, Dr. Gail Ironson and Dr. Julie Barroso, who apprenticed her throughout this journey. They are both eminent researchers who inspired her as a growing researcher and individual.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
PY - 2016/9/1
Y1 - 2016/9/1
N2 - Emotional disclosure is an expressive writing technique used in psychotherapy to process traumatic and stressful life experiences. While emotional disclosure interventions frequently use control groups, there are few qualitative analyses of these control groups. Our study's purpose was to analyze the control essays written by HIV-infected informants about their daily activities in an augmented written emotional disclosure intervention. Latent and manifest qualitative content analyses revealed prevalent contextual themes within the data. The emergent themes were socioeconomic status (SES), self-care, religiosity/spirituality, and social support. Emotional disclosure control subjects contributed substantial findings in terms of SES, self-care, resiliency, religiosity/spirituality, and social support and altruism.
AB - Emotional disclosure is an expressive writing technique used in psychotherapy to process traumatic and stressful life experiences. While emotional disclosure interventions frequently use control groups, there are few qualitative analyses of these control groups. Our study's purpose was to analyze the control essays written by HIV-infected informants about their daily activities in an augmented written emotional disclosure intervention. Latent and manifest qualitative content analyses revealed prevalent contextual themes within the data. The emergent themes were socioeconomic status (SES), self-care, religiosity/spirituality, and social support. Emotional disclosure control subjects contributed substantial findings in terms of SES, self-care, resiliency, religiosity/spirituality, and social support and altruism.
KW - HIV
KW - religiosity
KW - self-care
KW - social support
KW - socioeconomic status
KW - spirituality
KW - written emotional disclosure
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jana.2016.04.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jana.2016.04.001
M3 - Article
C2 - 27426408
AN - SCOPUS:84978791421
VL - 27
SP - 608
EP - 622
JO - Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
JF - Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
SN - 1055-3290
IS - 5
ER -