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- Title
HIV/AIDS Case Managers and Client HIV Status Disclosure: Perceived Client Needs, Practices, and Services.
- Authors
Kalichman, Seth C.; Klein, Susan J.; Kalichman, Moira O.; O'Connell, Daniel A.; Freedman, Jay A.; Eaton, Lisa; Cain, Demetria
- Abstract
People living with HIV/AIDS often need assistance in deciding whether or how to disclose their HIV status to others, and case managers are in a unique position to offer this assistance. The current study surveyed 223 case managers providing services to people living with HIV/ AIDS in New York State. The survey was conducted anonymously, and case managers were sampled at the agency level. Results showed that two-thirds of case managers routinely discuss disclosure issues with their HIV-positive clients. However, case managers often felt that they lacked the resources to provide assistance with disclosure decisions, and 66 percent of those who routinely discuss disclosure issues had not received training in assisting with disclosure to sex and injection drug-sharing partners. HIV disclosure issues were also seen by case managers as only one of many pressing issues facing their HIV-positive clients; other pressing issues were housing, food, medical care, mental health treatment, and preventing HIV transmission. These results indicate a need for training and resources to facilitate HIV status disclosure assistance services offered by case managers.
- Subjects
DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL workers; AIDS patients; INFORMED consent (Medical law); HIV; AIDS; TRUTHFULNESS &; falsehood
- Publication
Health & Social Work, 2007, Vol 32, Issue 4, p259
- ISSN
0360-7283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/hsw/32.4.259