Willow.
Willow.
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DOI:
10.1136/jnnp.60.1.5
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发表时间:
1996
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通讯作者:
L. F. Haas
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L. F. Haas
The WILLOW (Women Involved in Life Learning from Other Women) intervention is a small-group, social-skills training and educational intervention for heterosexual adult women, regardless of race or ethnicity, who are living with HIV/AIDS. An adaptation of the Sisters Informing Sisters About Topics on AIDS (SISTA) intervention, WILLOW is designed for women living with HIV/AIDS who are18 to 50 years of age and who have known their HIV status for at least 6 months. The WILLOW intervention does not address HIV disclosure or focus on the women’s HIV-positive status, and the intervention is not designed to be a counseling or service provision program for women living with HIV/AIDS. Rather, it is designed to provide women with information, skills, and strategies that will enhance the quality of their lives and, specifically, encourage the adoption of safer-sex behaviors to prevent sexually transmitted disease (STD) transmission and HIV reinfection. Women who require HIV-specific counseling and services should be referred for comprehensive risk counseling services, individual case management, or other programs that include these services because these are not included in the WILLOW intervention. WILLOW is delivered in four 4-hour sessions to groups of 8 to 10 women and is conducted in a community-based setting. The intervention emphasizes gender pride, informs women how to identify and maintain supportive social networks, teaches coping strategies to reduce life stressors, enhances awareness of STD transmission and HIV reinfection risk behaviors, teaches communication skills for negotiating safer sex, reinforces proper and consistent condom use, distinguishes between healthy and unhealthy relationships, and defines types of abuse in relationships and their effect on a woman’s ability to negotiate safer sex.