RESUMO
Bel-Air College of Nursing in India promotes nondiscriminatory care of persons living with HIV throughout its programs, albeit with no specific intervention. We examined whether nursing students' stigmatizing attitudes were related to number of years at Bel-Air. At the start of the 2015 and 2016 academic years, 310 Bachelor's (BScN; 4-year program) and 119 Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM; 2-year program) students completed the Zelaya and colleagues (2008) Stigma Scale (24 Likert-type items). Three subscales (Fear, Blame, Personal Discrimination) measured Overall Personal Stigma. The fourth subscale measured Perceived Community Discrimination. BScN students' mean Overall Personal Stigma and subscales scores declined and Perceived Community Discrimination scores increased from Year 1 to 4. For ANM students, Overall Personal Stigma, Fear, and Personal Discrimination scores were lower for Year 2 than Year 1 students. Bel-Air emphasizes effective and nondiscriminatory care throughout the entire curriculum, providing a model for reducing student nurses' stigmatizing attitudes.
Assuntos
Educação em Enfermagem/métodos , Medo , Infecções por HIV/psicologia , Estigma Social , Estudantes de Enfermagem/psicologia , Adulto , Estudos Transversais , Currículo , Feminino , Grupos Focais , Infecções por HIV/enfermagem , Humanos , Índia , Masculino , Pesquisa Qualitativa , Escolas de Enfermagem , Estereotipagem , Estudantes de Enfermagem/estatística & dados numéricos , Inquéritos e QuestionáriosRESUMO
This study compared associations between methamphetamine use, drug use other than methamphetamine, and HIV transmission factors among men who have sex with men, attending an sexually transmitted disease clinic. Of 6435 participants, newly recognized HIV status (OR: 3.02 95% CI: 2.30, 3.99) was associated with methamphetamine use compared with nondrug users, an association not found among other club drug users.
