Zakażenie wirusem HIV jako czynnik zmian w życiu
HIV infection as a factor of changes in life

Author(s): Tomasz Hauza
Subject(s): Higher Education , Substance abuse and addiction, Family and social welfare, Sociology of Education
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: HIV/AIDS; HIV infection; person living with HIV/AIDS; diagnosis; critical life event; biography; social relationships; parenthood
Summary/Abstract: The article presents a part of the wider study concerning changes in subjects’ lives caused by being diagnosed with HIV. The diagnosis is treated by the author as a special kind of turning points categorized as so – called critical life events. People who have to cope with such events are forced to reorganize their lives and create new external and internal balance. Critical life events stop subjects’ previous activities and lead to unavoidable changes. The results show that these changes, when it comes to being infected with HIV, take place in all significant areas of people’s lives. The research was carried out taking advantage of a qualitative method with the use of a biographical-narrative interview. This strategy was combined with the quantitative analysis of the collected data. The research sample consisted of 30 people infected with HIV.

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