Document 1055
 DOCN  M94A1055
 TI    Psychological evaluation of HIV-infected Japanese individuals.
 DT    9412
 AU    Konishi M; Mori K; Mikasa K; Sawaki M; Narita N; Yoshioka A; Fujimura Y;
       Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nara, Japan.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(2):219 (abstract no. PB0890). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94371520
 AB    OBJECTIVE: Medical staffs must be care of HIV-infected individuals in
       both the ways on direct medical care for the depressed immune systems
       and on the improvement of quality of life (QOL). Since the improvement
       of QOL can be assessed based on both the physical and psychosocial
       states, we tried objective psychological test to HIV-infected Japanese
       individuals. METHODS: Subjects included in this study are ten
       HIV-infected Japanese individuals under health control at our HIV clinic
       (age 19-46 y.o., 9 male hemophiliacs and 1 female, CD4+ cells
       5-120/microliters). Of these, 6 were AC and 4 were AIDS. Three kinds of
       practical psychological tests were used for the evaluation; (1) egogram
       (TEG) assesses the personal characters, (2) self-rating depression scale
       (SDS) depicts the scale of depression (positive: > 45 points of the
       score), and (3) state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) reflects the scale
       of anxiety. More than 42 points of STAI-I score indicate the
       state-anxiety meaning the present anxiety, and more than 45 points of
       STAI-I score show the trait-anxiety meaning the usual anxiety. RESULTS
       AND CONCLUSIONS: In terms of the TEG, no uniform character was found.
       The SDS score varied from 38 to 56 (mean 44.1 +/- 5.6), and 5 out of 10
       individuals had depression. The STAI-I score was between 43 and 64 (mean
       51.3 +/- 5.8), and all the individuals had the state-anxiety. The
       STAI-II score was from 35 to 59 (mean 48.3 +/- 7.3), and 6 out of the 10
       had the trate-anxiety. These results clearly indicate that the
       state-anxiety is the most important psychological state in HIV-infected
       Japanese persons, and medical staffs must be urged to take care of them
       in this point of view.
 DE    Adult  Anxiety  Depression  Female  Human  HIV Infections/*PSYCHOLOGY
       Japan  Male  Middle Age  Personality Inventory  MEETING ABSTRACT

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