Trial reportAIDS patient care and STDs2013
Family group psychotherapy to support the disclosure of HIV status to children and adolescents.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of Social Support Interventions on Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy Among People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2023Pooled it
- Effectiveness of interventions promoting HIV serostatus disclosure to sexual partners: a systematic review.AIDS and behavior · 2015Pooled it
- Interventions Supporting Disclosure Among Children and Adolescents Living with HIV: A Scoping Review and Realist Synthesis.AIDS and behavior · 2026Article
- Effectiveness of HIV Status Disclosure Interventions Among Children and Adolescents in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2026Review
- Improving Communication: A Narrative Synthesis of Interventions for HIV Disclosure to Pediatric Populations.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2025Review
- Support provided by outreach team leaders to caregivers of HIV/AIDS orphans in the North-West province of South Africa.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Assessing the impact of a community-based psychodrama intervention on mental health promotion of adolescents and young adults in Mozambique: A mixed-methods study.Journal of global health · 2024Article
- Optimizing Disclosure of HIV Status to a Diverse Population of HIV-Positive Youth at an Urban Pediatric HIV Clinic.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Article
- Adherence to Gluten-Free Diet in Coeliac Paediatric Patients Assessed through a Questionnaire Positively Influences Growth and Quality of Life.Nutrients · 2020Observational
- The Transition of Care From Pediatric to Adult Health-Care Services of Vertically HIV-Infected Adolescents: A Pilot Study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2020Article
- A model of caregiver paediatric HIV disclosure decision-making.Psychology, health & medicine · 2016Review
- Factors affecting disclosure of serostatus to children attending Jinja Hospital Paediatric HIV clinic, Uganda.African health sciences · 2015Article
- Growing-up just like everyone else: key components of a successful pediatric HIV disclosure intervention in Namibia.AIDS (London, England) · 2015Article
- Providers caring for adolescents with perinatally-acquired HIV: Current practices and barriers to communication about sexual and reproductive health.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2014Article
- Using health provider insights to inform pediatric HIV disclosure: a qualitative study and practice framework from Kenya.AIDS patient care and STDs · 2014Article
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Abstract
Disclosure of the HIV status to infected children is often delayed due to psychosocial problems in their families. We aimed at improving the quality of life in families of HIV-infected children, thus promoting disclosure of the HIV status to children by parents. Parents of 17 HIV-infected children (4.2-18 years) followed at our Center for pediatric HIV, unaware of their HIV status, were randomly assigned to the intervention group (8 monthly sessions of family group psychotherapy, FGP) or to the control group not receiving psychotherapy. Changes in the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWB-I) and in the Short-Form State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (Sf-STAI), as well as the HIV status disclosure to children by parents, were measured. Ten parents were assigned to the FGP group, while 7 parents to the controls. Psychological well-being increased in 70% of the FGP parents and none of the control group (p=0.017), while anxiety decreased in the FGP group but not in controls (60% vs. 0%, p=0.03). HIV disclosure took place for 6/10 children of the intervention group and for 1/7 of controls. Family group psychotherapy had a positive impact on the environment of HIV-infected children, promoting psychological well-being and the disclosure of the HIV status to children.
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