This manual aims to give women an opportunity to talk about their feelings about being HIV+ and pregnant, make women aware of the importance of looking after their physical and emotional health now that they know they are HIV+ and pregnant, and motivating the women to attend 4 antenatal clinic appointments and 4 Project Masihambisane sessions before their baby is born.
The goal of Project Masihambisane is to design, implement, and evaluate a robust, sustainable, and scalable intervention that improves the health and mental health of Mothers Living with HIV (MLH) in order to enhance the health and adjustment of their children. The intervention focuses on HIV-positive pregnant women in KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa.
MASIHAMBISANE (Enhance the Adjustment of Children of Mothers Living with HIV) – Intervention Outline
The goal of Project Masihambisane is to design, implement, and evaluate a robust, sustainable, and scalable intervention that improves the health and mental health of Mothers Living with HIV (MLH) in order to enhance the health and adjustment of their children. The intervention focuses on HIV-positive pregnant women in KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa.
This scale was developed to assess coping strategies among individuals living with AIDS (Fleishman & Fogel, 1994). The items in this scale were chosen from items developed in other studies (Billings and Moos, 1981, Folkman et al., 1986, and Pearlin and Schooler, 1978).
This survey assess HIV related incidents. This survey asks questions related to being teased or made fun of by others, being avoided by others, and being insulted verbally.
This survey assess life events and their importance. This survey asks questions related to moving into a new home, the death of a family member, and parents divorcing.
This policy briefs addresses how will new cost-sharing fees proposed for the AIDS Drug Assistance Program affect people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) in California. The governor’s cost-sharing proposal for ADAP will likely be a significant financial barrier to ADAP’s low-income beneficiaries. This is particularly problematic considering the high costs of these life-saving medications.
Dealing With Illness scale was designed to assess cognitive and behavioral responses made in efforts to cope with illness and was based on Billings and Moos’ (1981) description of three methods of coping. Items selected for the scale were from Amerikan’s (1985) Dealing With Illness coping instrument and the Moos, Cronkite, Billings, and Finney (1984) Healthand Daily Living Form.
This survey assesses what some people do to help them to deal with their mother’s illness. For example, some people react emotionally like crying and getting upset all the time, while others deal with their mother’s illness differently, like getting high or drunk often.
This scale measures for people living with HIV using the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV) instrument (Ichikawa, 2004; Wu, 1997). Three subscales from the MOS-HIV (general health, mental health, and physical health) were used in this study. Revicki, D.A., Sorensen, S., Wu, A.W. (1998). Reliability and validity of physical health and mental health summary scores from the MOS HIV Health Survey. Med Care, 36, 126–137.