Estrategias de afrontamiento en adultos jóvenes infectados con el virus de inmunodeficiencia humana VIH/SIDA de la fundación Hoasis en la ciudad de Cúcuta.

Abstract

Sexually-transmission infections, such as HIV/AIDS, are one of the public health problems that most disturb the population, affecting 36. 9 million of people living with the infection, threatening the physical and mental health of the infected person, due to the impact they must face the physiological, economic, sociocultural and psychological stressors for the adaptation of their new condition, so this research aims to describe the coping strategies of two young adults with HIV/AIDS from the Hoasis Foundation of the city of Cúcuta, from a qualitative perspective, proposing to future psychoeducational guidelines for a model of intervention. It was carried out under the qualitative approach with a narrative-type design which means that the investigator collects life histories and different experiences of certain people in order to describe and analyse them; In a sample of two young adults of 24-25 years of the Hoasis Foundation in the city of Cúcuta, with the human immunodeficiency virus HIV/AIDS. Data collection techniques were applied such as in-depth interview, nonparticipant observation and life history, which resulted in HIV/AIDS patients they use the different coping strategies according to the phase of the infection, in this research there is a greater degree of use in coping strategy focused on emotion and combined.