Volume 29, Issue 5, 2020
DOI: 10.24205/03276716.2020.1108
Psychological Intervention for Young HIV Gay Living in China: A Clinical Psychology Study
Abstract
Objective: This experiment aims to conduct a professional psychological intervention on Young HIV Gay and evaluate the intervention's effect to provide a scientific basis for the prevention and treatment of AIDS.
Methods: This experiment applies clinical psychology and clinical medicine methods to conduct professional and systematic psychological interventions based on the results of the young HIV gay questionnaire assessment of AIDS-related knowledge. SPSS26.0 analyzed the experimental data, and the χ2 test was used for single-factor analysis.
Results: 76 cases were included in this experiment, 38 cases in the intervention group, and 38 cases in the control group. The youngest case was 18 years old, and the oldest was 29 years old. The average age was 19.18±4.58 years old, and the 18-23 years old group accounted for 79.95%. Most of them are unmarried, college degree or above. The awareness rate of AIDS-related knowledge in the intervention group after the experiment was significantly higher than the control group (χ2=5.68, P﹤0.01) before the experiment (χ2=11.50, P﹤0.01), and the complete knowledge rate was also higher than the control group (χ2=8.08, P﹤0.01) before the experiment (χ2=9.25, P﹤0.01), the control group had no significant changes before and after the experiment. After the experiment, the intervention group detected 21 cases with CD4≥500cell/mm3, accounting for 55.26% (21/38); the control group detected a total of 7 cases with CD4≥500cell/mm3, accounting for 18.42% (7/38). Moreover, the intervention group's average CD4 count was 521cell/mm3, which was higher than the average CD4 count of 242cell/mm3 of the control group. Furthermore, the average HIV-1 RNA (Viral Load) of the experimental group was 75 copies/mL, lower than the control group's 2000copies /mL.
Conclusion: The demographic characteristics of experimental subject’s present juvenile, and interventions need to be carried out as soon as possible. Young HIV gay's actual AIDS-related knowledge rate is not high. The health sector needs to increase its propaganda and intervention efforts. Psychological intervention can promote the recovery of CD4 of young HIV gay and reduce the viral load. Conducive to improving their life span and reducing the virus's spread, thereby controlling the AIDS epidemic
Keywords
Gay; HIV; AIDS; Psychological intervention