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Children With HIV-infected Parents Fear Transmissions in Home
The collaborative study by researchers from UCLA, the RAND Corp., Harvard University and Children's Hospital Boston has claimed that such fears originate mainly from lack of adequate information about the spread of the disease.
This is the first study interview multiple family members, including minor children, in families with an HIV-infected parent about their concerns over HIV transmission in the household.
"We found that many of the worries were based on misconceptions about how HIV is spread. We also learned that HIV-infected parents had legitimate concerns about contracting infections such as a cold, flu or chicken pox while caring for a sick child. This knowledge could help paediatricians to address children's specific fears about HIV transmission as well as help clinicians who care for the HIV-infected parents," said lead study author Burt Cowgill, a staff researcher at the UCLA|RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion.
The researchers conducted interviews with 33 HIV-infected parents, 27 of their minor children (ages 9 to 17), 19 adult children and 15 caregivers (spouses, partners, grandparents or friends) in the span of 1 year (March 2004-March2005).
All the HIV-infected parents in the study had earlier participated in the RAND Corp.'s HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study, a national probability sample of people over 18 with known HIV infection.
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