TY - JOUR
T1 - Persons with AIDS and their family caregivers
T2 - Negotiating the journey
AU - Bunting, Sheila Mc Guire
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Increased incidence of AIDS in North America and throughout the world has posed a challenge to nursing to provide care for these clients and their families. In this study a theoretical model was derived to explain how family members manage the experience of living with AIDS. Interviews with 11 family members and 9 persons with AIDS (PWAs) were submitted to the grounded theory method of constant comparative analysis. Negotiating the Journey was found to be the basic social psychological process that conceptually related and explained the variability in the experiences of participants. Strategies within the negotiating process included Control of Awareness, Gearing Up, Finding a Guide, Gauging the Territory, Living with AIDS, Working the System, Framing Time, and Making Tradeoffs. PWAs and their families learned and gained competencies in the negotiation of their journeys. They then used their wisdom to help others by Becoming Guides.
AB - Increased incidence of AIDS in North America and throughout the world has posed a challenge to nursing to provide care for these clients and their families. In this study a theoretical model was derived to explain how family members manage the experience of living with AIDS. Interviews with 11 family members and 9 persons with AIDS (PWAs) were submitted to the grounded theory method of constant comparative analysis. Negotiating the Journey was found to be the basic social psychological process that conceptually related and explained the variability in the experiences of participants. Strategies within the negotiating process included Control of Awareness, Gearing Up, Finding a Guide, Gauging the Territory, Living with AIDS, Working the System, Framing Time, and Making Tradeoffs. PWAs and their families learned and gained competencies in the negotiation of their journeys. They then used their wisdom to help others by Becoming Guides.
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U2 - 10.1177/107484079600200405
DO - 10.1177/107484079600200405
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:0000718276
SN - 1074-8407
VL - 2
SP - 399
EP - 417
JO - Journal of Family Nursing
JF - Journal of Family Nursing
IS - 4
ER -