Stigma never dies: Mourning a spouse who died of AIDS in China

Nancy Xiaonan Yu; Amy Y.M. Chow; Cecilia L.W. Chan; Jianxin Zhang; Sunita M. Stewart

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2015.10.034

Stigma never dies: Mourning a spouse who died of AIDS in China

Nancy Xiaonan Yu^*
, Amy Y.M. Chow
, Cecilia L.W. Chan
, Jianxin Zhang
, Sunita M. Stewart

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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Abstract

Stigma towards people with HIV (PHIV) can affect their family members. In this study of 68 HIV seronegative participants in China whose spouse died of AIDS, 35.3% reported prolonged grief. Stigma beliefs towards PHIV (i.e., belief that PHIV's death leaves the deceased, the family and society better off) predicted grief symptoms. Social campaigns to combat stigma and grief therapy to reconstruct the meaning of HIV-related death may be helpful to reduce suffering in HIV bereaved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	968-970
Journal	Psychiatry Research
Volume	230
Issue number	3
Online published	30 Oct 2015
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.10.034
Publication status	Published - 30 Dec 2015

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Bereavement
Prolonged grief
Stigma

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