       Document 0775
 DOCN  M9640775
 TI    Services for children with HIV/AIDS: the views of parents.
 DT    9604
 AU    Barrett G; Victor CR
 SO    Prof Care Mother Child. 1995;5(4):107-12. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96140123
 AB    In this qualitative study, the parents of ten children who attended an
       inner-London teaching hospital for HIV/AIDS were interviewed to find out
       their views on the services. Speaking from their own experiences,
       parents expressed a high level of satisfaction with the specialist
       paediatric care at the teaching hospital but had little confidence in
       the expertise of other hospitals or of GPs and health visitors. Few
       cases had been identified antenatally; the diagnosis of HIV/AIDS was
       often made only after the child had become ill and been investigated for
       a variety of diseases before being tested for HIV. The families felt
       considerable anxiety about the future, especially about what would
       happen if both child and parent were to become ill at the same time. The
       increasing number of HIV-infected mothers and children means that in
       future the caseload and expertise of the specialist centres will need to
       be shared with the primary health care team.
 DE    *Attitude to Health  Child  Child, Preschool  Female  Health Services
       Needs and Demand  Hospitals, Teaching  Human  HIV Infections/*NURSING
       Infant  Male  Nursing Methodology Research  Parents/*PSYCHOLOGY
       *Quality of Health Care  Questionnaires  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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