Macro-level implicit HIV prejudice and the health of community residents with HIV.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study examined how community levels of implicit HIV prejudice are associated with the psychological and physical well-being of people with HIV living in those same communities. It also examined whether community motivation to control prejudice and/or explicit HIV prejudice moderates the relationship of implicit prejudice and well-being.

Method

Participants were 206 people with HIV living in 42 different communities in New England who completed measures that assessed psychological distress, thriving, and physical well-being. Telephone surveys of 347 residents of these same communities (selected via random digit dialing) were used to assess community explicit HIV prejudice and motivation to control HIV prejudice. These community residents then completed an onli

SUBMITTER: Miller CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4979556 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature