Results: This method will creatively educate, sensitize and enforce behavioral change among the homeless youth living with HIV. Percentage of homeless youth with HIV in Ibadan Nigeria would also be revealed, it will also reveal various means through which the victims are affected with HIV in Ibadan Nigeria. Conclusion: Educational, social and medical programs are needed to reduce the risk of infection in this population. There is need for more training to empower this group to take a leading role in the community to prevent the spread of HIV and make them Volunteers against HIV (VAH). This will reduce numbers of homeless youths living with HIV in Ibadan Nigeria. Previous work has shown that most, but not all, HIV-positive adults disclose their HIV status to their sexual partners. Factors associated with non-disclosure include stigma, fear of rejection, fear of violence, and privacy concerns. In work with populations at risk for HIV, psychopathy (a personality characteristic associated with antisocial behavior and egocentrism) has been associated with substance use and sexual risk behavior. Little work has explored associations between psychopathy, disclosure, and risk in HIV-positive adults. In the present study, HIV-positive men and women (N=310) were recruited from the waiting room of an infectious disease clinic. Participants completed a self-administered questionnaire assessing demographic information, disclosure of HIV status, psychopathy, and sexual risk behavior. The majority (74%) of participants disclosed their HIV status to all sex partners in the past 3 months. Individuals who did not disclose their HIV status to all partners scored significantly higher in psychopathy (M=24.00, SD=5.22) than those who had disclosed (M=21.02, SD=5.91; F=7.98, p<.001). Higher psychopathy scores were associated with higher rates of having sex after drinking (rho=0.20), having sex after using drugs (rho=0.24), the number of sexual partners (rho=0.13) and unprotected vaginal and anal sex acts in the past 3 months (rho=0.13; all ps<.05). Higher psychopathy scores were also associated with lower intentions to use condoms with future partners (rho=−0.22, p<.001). Findings suggest that psychopathy is associated with risk behavior among HIVpositive men and women. Disclosure of HIV status has the potential to help reduce the spread of HIV. Interventions focused on increasing disclosure need to take into account associations between psychopathy and non-disclosure. No studies were found that assessed the emotional impact beyond 18 months post-infection. Studies used various methods of appraisal: self-report, standardized measures or questionnaires of original design, and a small number of studies employed hospital chart reviews. For the purpose of this study, the research results were divided into two recovery stages: early stages (<3 months post infection), and later stages (>3 months post-infection). Results: Early study variables that emerged included "worry about infecting others," "elevated emotional distress," "changes in mood," "symptoms of acute stress disorder," "feelings of stigmatization," and "psychiatric complications," such as the presence of psychotic symptoms (possibly secondary to steroid toxicity). Later stage variables included "emotional distress", "depressed mood", and "posttraumatic stress symptoms." Evidence of psychological problems developing in the later stages was also found in a small proportion of survivors. Conclusion: The limited number of published studies available for review consistently reported high rates of emotional distress in patients in both the early stages and later stages of recovery up to 18 months post-infection, with worry about infecting others, feelings of stigmatization, and psychotic symptoms emerging earlier in the recovery process. The levels of psychological distress found in these studies are similar to those reported in other comparable chronic physical illnesses. SARS remains a new disease, and the course of its development, both physically and emotionally, is still unfolding as time progresses. Longer term follow-up to determine the course of SARS patients' psychological status will help to guide treatment interventions. This, in turn, will help to inform the needs for future emergent, possibly similar, viral infections. Background: Vitality is related to health and is characterised by a perceived energy level, feelings of fatigue and feeling fit. These subjective factors can be positively affected by physical activity. Since vigorous physical activity is strongly related to aerobic fitness (VO2max), it is hypothesised that VO2max is related also to vitality. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the association between vitality and estimated VO2max in older workers. Methods: Participants (n=427) How should one measure the effect of interventions to reduce sick leave, which survey methodology and study designs should one use and what statistical methods should be applied? Various designs provide different information and quality of information, and this should be put in a perspective in the analyses and in the interpretation of the results from available data. Depending on how an outcome (e.g. return to work) is measured various statistical methods are natural. This presentation discusses the use of extended event history analyses in multi-state models for the analyses of sick leave data. Using multi-state models, one can exploit more of the data available in the evaluation of interventions to reduce sickness absence or the effect after rehabilitation programs. We show the advantage of multi state models uses two datasets as examples. The first data is from a randomised controlled trial (RCT) on 256 individuals with low back pain, while the second data is an uncontrolled study on 577 individuals with different diagnosis after an 8 week stay at a rehabilitation clinic. For the RCT we show that the intervention increases the number of days in work with 46 day during a period of three years, while for the uncontrolled study we find that 60 % of the participants return to work. Severity of each complaint included in the inventory is rated on a 4point scale (0=none, 1=some, 2=much, 3=severe). Each complaint is also scored for duration (number of days) during the last 30 days. The product of severity and duration can be used to obtain a total score (0 -90) indicating the degree of health problems (absence of positive health). The SHC inventory include 5 Subscales (flu, pain, allergy, anxiety and gastrointestinal) and a total health complain score is possible to get as well. The SHC is available in several languages, and psychometric properties were previously described for different language versions. The present work describe the adaptation process for the Spanish language and preliminary psychometrics. Method: The English version of the SHC inventory was translated to Spanish by two experts, the Spanish version were reviewed by a third colleague to check the accuracy of the translation. This version was backtranslated to English by an independent translator. Backtranslated version was contrasted with the English original by the two initial experts. The Spanish version was then piloted with a small group of health adults to check comprehension of the items and wording. No suggestions were made by pilot subjects. Then final version of the SHC inventory in Spanish was considered achieved. These steps were followed by a psychometric study (n=83). Evidences of reliability (internal consistency), validity (construct validity, CFA) and sensitivity to change (after an intervention) were assessed. Results and conclusions: Results will be described in detail in the poster. Good internal consistency was achieved for the inventory (>.70), structure of the questionnaire was confirmed, and inventory show change in scores after participation in a stress related intervention. The SHC inventory shows be a useful, reliable, valid and sensible measure to assess subjective health complains in Spanish adults, and is available to use in research in Spain. Purpose: A writing psychotherapy, "Role Lettering Therapy(RLT)" was developed in Japanese reformatory in 1983. The procedure is almost same as empty chair technique, but written language is used instead of spoken. Haruguchi (1987) indicated several original effects of RLT. That is, 1) clarification of emotions, 2) self counseling, 3) catharsis, 4) confrontation and acceptance, 5) acquisition of both sides' viewpoints, etc.