'When it comes to HIV, that’s when you find out the genuinity of that love’: The experience of disclosing a HIV+ status to an intimate partner
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Smith, Charlotte, Cook, Rachel and Rohleder, P. 2017. 'When it comes to HIV, that’s when you find out the genuinity of that love’: The experience of disclosing a HIV+ status to an intimate partner. Journal of Health Psychology. 24 (8), pp. 1011-1022. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317691588
Authors | Smith, Charlotte, Cook, Rachel and Rohleder, P. |
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Abstract | Despite a medical discourse of the ‘normalisation’ of HIV, it remains a highly stigmatising condition, and makes the issue of disclosing one’s HIV status particularly complex. This paper reports on the experience of 18 people living with HIV in the UK of disclosing their HIV+ status in arguably their most important relationship, their intimate partnership. Five main themes arose: disclosure as the battlefield, preparing psychologically to disclose, disclosure as a test of the partner’s love, disclosure as an opportunity for the partner to know them more deeply, and the renegotiation of the relationship narrative. |
Journal | Journal of Health Psychology |
Journal citation | 24 (8), pp. 1011-1022 |
ISSN | 1359-1053 |
1461-7277 | |
Year | 2017 |
Publisher | SAGE Publications |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317691588 |
Web address (URL) | https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105317691588 |
Publication dates | |
01 Jul 2019 | |
Online | 09 Mar 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 13 Jan 2017 |
Accepted | 21 Dec 2016 |
Copyright information | Smith, et.al., 'When it comes to HIV, that’s when you find out the genuinity of that love’: The experience of disclosing a HIV+ status to an intimate partner’, Journal of Health Psychology. © 2017 The Authors. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Page range | 1011-1022 |
License | All rights reserved |
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