title: The concept of "silencing the self" in low-income, aging, HIV-infected African American women: a 10-year community-based participatory program of research with results.
abstract: Despite a resilient spirit, the challenges that face low-income, aging Black women living with HIV infection are immense. This article describes a 10-year iterative history of using the Theory of Silencing the Self (TSTS) as an explanatory model that was found to be gender sensitive, culturally relevant, and helpful in guiding a community-based participatory research group of low-income, HIV-infected Black women living in Boston, Massachusetts. The group, called Sistah Powah, used the TSTS to design and implement a structured writing intervention in a women's drop-in center targeting low-income, aging Black women living with HIV infection as a way to give them and others a voice.
authors: Rosanna F
authors: RF
authors: DeMarco
authors: Latrona R
authors: LR
authors: Lanier
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000375:Aging; D001900:Boston; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007389:Internal-External Control; D008875:Middle Aged; D011203:Poverty; D011209:Power, Psychological; D012649:Self Concept; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors
keywords: Black women; HIV infection; Theory of Silencing the Self