title: The Daily Lives of People With HIV Infection: A Qualitative Study of the Control Group in an Expressive Writing Intervention.
abstract: Emotional disclosure is an expressive writing technique used in psychotherapy to process traumatic and stressful life experiences. While emotional disclosure interventions frequently use control groups, there are few qualitative analyses of these control groups. Our study's purpose was to analyze the control essays written by HIV-infected informants about their daily activities in an augmented written emotional disclosure intervention. Latent and manifest qualitative content analyses revealed prevalent contextual themes within the data. The emergent themes were socioeconomic status (SES), self-care, religiosity/spirituality, and social support. Emotional disclosure control subjects contributed substantial findings in terms of SES, self-care, resiliency, religiosity/spirituality, and social support and altruism.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Metaweh
authors.forename: Gail
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ironson
authors.forename: Julie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Barroso
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000328:Adult; D035061:Control Groups; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012648:Self Care; D012650:Self Disclosure; D012944:Social Support; D029181:Spirituality; D014956:Writing
keywords: HIV; religiosity; self-care; social support; socioeconomic status; spirituality; written emotional disclosure