Life priorities in the HIV-positive Asians: a text-mining analysis in young vs. old generation.
HIV/AIDS is one of the most urgent and challenging public health issues, especially since it is now considered a chronic disease. In this project, we used text mining techniques to extract meaningful words and word patterns from 45 transcribed in-depth interviews of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) conducted in Taipei, Beijing, Shanghai, and San Francisco from 2006 to 2013. Text mining analysis can predict whether an emerging field will become a long-lasting source of academic interest or whether it is simply a passing source of interest that will soon disappear. The data were analyzed by age group (45 and older vs. 44 and younger). The highest ranking fragments in the order of frequency were: "care", "daughter", "disease", "family", "HIV", "hospital", "husband", "medicines", "money", "people", "son", "tell/disclosure", "thought", "want", and "years". Participants in the 44-year-old and younger group were focused mainly on disease disclosure, their families, and their financial condition. In older PLWHA, social supports were one of the main concerns. In this study, we learned that different age groups perceive the disease differently. Therefore, when designing intervention, researchers should consider to tailor an intervention to a specific population and to help PLWHA achieve a better quality of life. Promoting self-management can be an effective strategy for every encounter with HIV-positive individuals.
a School of Nursing , Yale University , Orange , CT , USA.
Wei-Ti
WT
Chen
b Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) , Yale School of Public Health , New Haven , CT , USA.
Russell
R
Barbour
D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D044466:Asian People / Q000523:psychology*; D002681:China; D057225:Data Mining; D030881:Disclosure; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000191:economics / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012495:San Francisco; D012944:Social Support; D013624:Taiwan
Asian; HIV; Text mining; age group; disclosure; life priority
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