Enacting Personal HIV Disclosure Policies for Sexual Situations

HIV-Positive Gay Men's Experiences

Bibliographic Data

ID5454865
AuthorsScott Edward Rutledge (0000-0002-5106-2389, Temple University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume17
Issue8
Pages1040-1059
Publication date2007-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Health Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1049732307306931
PMID17928478
OpenAlexW2153708008
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited21

Given successes in treating HIV/AIDS, there are increasing numbers of sexually active HIV-positive people. Although there is a current public health emphasis on testing interventions to reduce HIV transmission by people who know they are HIV positive, understanding how people enact decisions to disclose their HIV seropositivity is needed. HIV Disclosure Decision Making in Sexual Situations, a grounded theory based on interviews with 15 HIV-positive gay men, hypothesizes and interprets a two-part process wherein HIV-positive gay men form personal disclosure policies that they contextualize to various dating and sexual situations. In this article, the author depicts the second part of the grounded theory with its five interlocking components of the process of enacting HIV disclosure in sexual situations

Family medicine · Grounded theory · Homosexuality · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Qualitative research · Self-disclosure · Sexual behavior · Sociology · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology