Document 0050
 DOCN  M9590050
 TI    On being informed you are HIV positive: experiences of Navy service
       members.
 DT    9509
 AU    Kupke T; Tarr GW; HIV Division of Internal Medicine, Naval Medical
       Center,; Portsmouth, VA 23708-5100, USA.
 SO    Mil Med. 1995 Feb;160(2):85-9. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE MED/95303325
 AB    This study addressed the experience of being told that one has become
       infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while serving in
       the United States Navy. Responses to a questionnaire, administered to
       150 HIV-positive service members, indicated that feelings of fear,
       shock, disbelief, and embarrassment were experienced by study
       participants upon learning of their HIV-positive status. The manner in
       which their HIV diagnosis was disclosed was generally viewed in
       favorable terms and more so in recent years relative to the earliest
       days of the Navy's HIV program. Having a medical officer as a disclosing
       official was associated with more negative experiences than was the case
       for other categories of disclosing officials. Lastly, post-disclosure
       events were often excessively stressful, and no improvement in this
       regard over 6 years of the Navy's HIV program was evident.
 DE    Adult  *Attitude  Comparative Study  Cross-Sectional Studies  Female
       Human  HIV Seropositivity/*PSYCHOLOGY  Male  *Military Medicine
       *Military Personnel  Psychology, Military  Questionnaires  Stress,
       Psychological  *Truth Disclosure  United States  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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