THE EFFECTS OF RELIGIOUS ATTRIBUTES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AND HEALTH STATUS IN AFRICAN-AMERICANS LIVING WITH HIV INFECTION (AIDS, IMMUNE DEFICIENCY, HOPE, DEPRESSION).
Contributors: University of California, San Francisco.
Published: 1996
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Health Sciences, Nursing.; Black Studies.; Religion, General.; Psychology, Clinical.
Description: This study examined the effect of religious attributes on anxiety, hope, depression, and health status in 117 African-Americans with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection. Each subject completed the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, Nowotny Hope Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory, a demographic survey, and a Sign and Symptom Checklist for Persons with HIV Disease. Analysis of data included correlation and multiple regression analysis. The results demonstrated significant relationships between existential well-being (a component of spiritual well-being) and the following: HIV symptoms and existential well-being (multiple $R=.37;\ P<.05$), HIV symptoms and state anxiety (multiple $R=.65;\ P<.05$), HIV symptoms and trait anxiety (multiple $R=.63;\ P<.05$), gender and hope (multiple $R=.69;\ P<.05$), and HIV symptoms and depression (multiple $R=.63;\ P<.05$). The conclusions of the study indicate that, within this sample population, those individuals who were spiritually well, exhibited less depression and anxiety. These particular participants also reported less HIV symptoms and higher levels of hope. These findings present significant implications for nurses providing care to those living with the HIV virus and all health care professionals seeking opportunities to make a greater impact on the health status of these patients.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-12, Section: B, page: 7448.

Thesis (PH.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO, 1996.

School code: 0034.