title: Perceived Benefits and Drawbacks of Disclosure Practices: An Analysis of PLWHAs' Strategies for Disclosing HIV Status.
abstract: People living with HIV/AIDS must make decisions about how, where, when, what, and to whom to disclose their HIV status. This study explores their perceptions of benefits and drawbacks of various HIV disclosure strategies. The authors interviewed 53 people living with HIV/AIDS from a large AIDS service organization in a northeastern U.S. state and used a combination of deductive and inductive coding to analyze disclosure strategies and advantages and disadvantages of disclosure strategies. Deductive codes consisted of eight strategies subsumed under three broad categories: mode (face-to-face, non-face-to-face, and third-party disclosure), context (setting, bringing a companion, and planning a time), and content (practicing and incremental disclosure). Inductive coding identified benefits and drawbacks for enacting each specific disclosure strategy. The discussion focuses on theoretical explanations for the reasons for and against disclosure strategy enactment and the utility of these findings for practical interventions concerning HIV disclosure practices and decision making.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New Jersey , USA.
authors.forename: Danielle
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Catona
authors.affiliation: a Department of Communication , Rutgers University , New Brunswick , New Jersey , USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Greene
authors.affiliation: b Department of Communication , Bowling Green State University , Bowling Green , Ohio , USA.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Magsamen-Conrad
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009511:New England; D036301:Qualitative Research; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012650:Self Disclosure