Sexuality, vulnerability to HIV, and mental health

An Ethnographic Study of Psychiatric Institutions

Bibliographic Data

ID5225545
AuthorsDiana De Souza Pinto (0000-0003-4464-9103, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS, Brasil), Carlos Guevara Mann (0000-0003-2936-8506, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Claudio Gruber Mann (Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil), Milton Wainberg (Columbia University), Milton L Wainberg (0000-0002-9390-4652, University of the District of Columbia), Paulo Mattos (0000-0003-0709-3783, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), Suely Broxado De Oliveira (Associação Brasileira Interdisciplinar de AIDS, Brasil; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil)
Year2007
Volume23
Issue9
Pages2224-2233
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCadernos de Saude Publica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0102-311X • E-ISSN: 1678-4464
PublisherFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0102-311x2007000900030
PMID17700957
OpenAlexW2157714646
SCIELO_PIDS0102-311X2007000900030
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited9

This paper presents data from the ethnographic based formative phase of the Interdisciplinary Project on Sexuality, Mental Health, and AIDS (PRISSMA), sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and carried out in two psychiatric institutions in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Results from ethnographic observations, focus groups, and key informant interviews with different groups of mental health care providers and day hospital and outpatient mental health clients regarding conceptions of sexuality and HIV vulnerability are described. The results suggest a diversity of notions about sexuality by both groups and point out the high HIV sexual risk in this psychiatric population. This formative phase has served as the basis for the cultural adaptation and creation of a Brazilian intervention for HIV prevention in the severely mentally ill, the feasibility of which has been successfully evaluated in the pilot phase

Environmental health · Ethnography · Focus group · Formative assessment · Human sexuality · Intervention (counseling) · Mental health · Population · Psychiatry · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing) · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Anthropology · Gender Studies · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology