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Rapid review response

3 Jan 2010

Rapid Review Response: The Use of Facilitated Peer Support Group Model for People Living with HIV Question 1) What are the benefits of group interventions for persons living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs), and 2) What are best practices in administering group intervention programming for PHAs? [...] Specifically, the following limitations and considerations with respect to the effects of group interventions have been noted: • few studies have explored the important question of how groups support adjustment to illness, and although positive inter-group social comparisons has been associated with improved adjustment to illness, negative inter-group social comparisons have resulted in worsening [...] The authors note the growing evidence in support of group services, but warn the limited understanding of “which interventions are most effective for participants at which phases in the trajectory of disease has been less clear” (3). [...] In other words, a newly diagnosed individual will have different support needs than someone with advanced symptoms of a disease (see Appendix 2 for a table outline the evidence for group support for participants at different stage of disease) Brashers, Neidig, and Goldsmith (2004) found support from others helps PHAs manage the uncertainty of illness in a number of ways: (a) assisting with informa [...] As such, Oei and Dingle (2008) argue the following important areas are in need of further research: 1) the applicability of GCBT in minority groups and different cultures; 2) the lack of wide spread use of GCBT by mental health workers in community clinics; 3) the need to have better guidelines for training of the next generation of GCBT at institutional levels; 4) the cost benefit of group over i
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Canada

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