Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Science (MS)
Major/Program
Nursing
First Advisor's Name
Sandra Lobar
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Ralph Liporace
Third Advisor's Name
Tomas Madayag
Date of Defense
7-25-1997
Abstract
This phenomenological study described the fundamental structure of what it was like for men to tell someone of their HIV-positive status. Nineteen men participated in interviews to describe their experiences of self-disclosing their HIV-positive status to lovers, families, and friends. The data were analyzed first by using the phenomenological approach of Colaizzi. Data were then further analyzed using an approach by Van Manen, in which the lifeworld existentials of spatiality, temporality, and relationality provided an even clearer understanding of the phenomenon. The findings from both analyses revealed that the participants felt emotions such as rejection, denial, and lost tomorrows; as well as, advice on who, how and when to tell. These emotions developed into four themes: Price of Honesty, Telling, Realization, and Isolation. Knowledge of these thoughts and emotions may help nurses to formulate therapeutic interventions in which self-disclosure issues are addressed in other individuals.
Identifier
FI15101202
Recommended Citation
DiVeronica, Elaine A., "A phenomenological study of self-disclosure of male's HIV seropositivity to another person" (1997). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 3064.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3064
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