| CAHR Abstracts 2002 |
SOCIAL SCIENCES / SCIENCES SOCIALES
POSTER PRESENTATIONS / PRÉSENTATIONS D’AFFICHES
LIVING WITH HIV
[466P] ETHICAL ISSUES IN PAEDIATRIC HIV INFECTION:
BELIEFS AND EXPERIENCES OF CANADIAN HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
MA Mullen1,2, LM Samson1,2, D Stevenson2,
F Zegarra2
1University of Ottawa; 2Children’s Hospital of Eastern
Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario
[467P] A NATIONAL MULTI-SITE STUDY OF COMMUNITY-BASED
HIV/AIDS CARE: PERSPECTIVES FROM HARD-TO-REACH CARE RECIPIENT POPULATIONS ACROSS
CANADA
B Mumford1, T Myers2, P Millson2,
J Allen, J Dumas, T Kerr, L Narciso, P Stewart (Community Care Research Team)
1Canadian AIDS Society; 2HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological
Studies Unit, University of Toronto
[468P] A NATIONAL MULTI-SITE STUDY OF COMMUNITY-BASED
HIV/AIDS CARE: REACHING HARD-TO REACH POPULATIONS – PERSPECTIVES FROM THE FRONT
LINE CARE PROVIDER
B Mumford1, T Myers2, P Millson2, J
Allen, J Dumas, T Kerr, L Narciso, P Stewart (Community Care Research Team)
1Canadian AIDS Society; 2HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological
Studies Unit, University of Toronto
[469P] PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS AS TUTORS IN AN INTERDISCIPLINARY
LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR UNDERGRADUATE HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
D Guenter1, P Solomon2, P Salvatori2
1Department of Family Medicine and 2School of Rehabilitation
Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
[470P] APPROACHES TO HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE LIVING
WITH HIV
Dale Guenter1, Dorothy Pawluch2, James Gillett3,
Roy Cain4, Robb Travers5
1Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University and North Hamilton
Community Health Centre, Hamilton, Ontario; 2Department of Sociology,
McMaster University; 3Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University
of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario; 4School of Social Work, McMaster University;
5Graduate, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario
[471P] DEPRESSION AND HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF
LIFE IN HIV/AIDS
Aiko Yamamoto1, Ahmed Bayoumi2,3, Mark H Halman2,3,
Douglas Shore1, Byron P Rourke1,4, Sean B Rourke2,3
1University of Windsor; 2St Michael’s Hospital;
3University of Toronto; 4Yale University
[472P] IMPACT OF DEPRESSION AND HIV DISEASE MARKERS
ON MEDICAL SYMPTOMS IN HIV/AIDS
Aiko Yamamoto1, Alissa Scalera2, Mark H Halman2,3,
Byron P Rourke1,4, Sean B Rourke2,3
1University of Windsor; 2University of Toronto; 3St
Michael’s Hospital; 4Yale University
[473P]
THE CHALLENGES OF DISCLOSING HIV POSITIVE STATUS TO SIGNIFICANT OTHERS: EXPERIENCES
OF MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN ENROLLED IN THE POLARIS HIV SEROCONVERSION STUDY
W Medved1, L Calzavara1,2, K Ryder1,
T Myers1,2, Polaris Study Team
1HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Studies Unit, Faculty
of Medicine, University of Toronto; 2Department of Public Health
Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
[474P] NEURO-RESTORE PROJECT FOR HIV-INFECTED
ADULTS: PRELIMINARY FINDINGS
Sean B Rourke1,2, Sherri L Carter1, Shemira Murji1,
Lisa Trépanier1, Clare Brandys2, Doug Saunders2,
Colleen P Millikin1, Mark H Halman1,2, William Lancee2,3
1St Michael’s Hospital; 2University of Toronto; 3Mount
Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario
[475P]
FATIGUE IN HIV/AIDS IS ASSOCIATED WITH DEPRESSION AND SUBJECTIVE NEUROCOGNITIVE
COMPLAINTS BUT NOT NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING
Colleen P Millikin1, Mark H Halman1,2, Christopher
Power3, Sean B Rourke1,2
1Mental Health Service and Inner City Health Research Unit, St Michael’s
Hospital, Toronto, Ontario; 2Department of Psychiatry, University
of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario; 3Departments of Clinical Neurosciences,
Microbiology & Infectious Diseases and Neuroscience Research Group, University
of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
[476P] THE “STAART” ADHERENCE INTERVENTION STUDY:
IMPROVING PATIENTS’ READINESS FOR STARTING HIV MEDICATIONS – AN UPDATE (2002)
L Balfour, M Hamel, J Kowal, G Tasca, J Angel, A Badley, S Kravcik, G Garber,
C Cooper, W Cameron
Ottawa Hospital-General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario
[477P] PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT TO STARTING HAART:
EFAVIRENZ AND DEPRESSED MOOD (2002)
L Balfour, M Langewisch, M Hamel, J Kowal, G Tasca, J Angel, A Badley,
S Kravcik, G Garber, C Cooper, W Cameron
Ottawa Hospital-General Campus, Ottawa, Ontario
[478P]
THE IMPACT OF CASEY HOUSE COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ON PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
Deborah Randall Wood1, Sue Edwards1, Joan Lesmond1,
Lea Narciso1, Sally Simpson1, Robin Weir2,
Gina Browne2, Jacqueline Roberts2, Amiram Gafni2,
Greg Robinson2
1Casey House; 2CLEAR Investigators
[479P] THE IMPACT OF AN ASO’S COMMUNITY BASED
SUPPORT SERVICES ON CLIENT’S QUALITY OF LIFE
Joanne Lush1, Robin Weir, Gina Browne, Jacqueline
Roberts, Greg Robinson
1Executive Director, PARN
[480P] KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND TREATMENT DECISION
MAKING AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS
Eric Mykhalovskiy1, Michael Bresalier2, Loralee
Gillis3, Craig McClure4, Liza McCoy5, Darien
Taylor6, Michelle Webber1
1University of Toronto; 2Cambridge University; 3Association
of Ontario Health Centres; 4Health Hounds; 5University
of Calgary; 6Private Consultant
[481P] SELF REPRESENTATION AMONG PEOPLE WITH HIV/AIDS
James Gillett
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
[482P] PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND SOCIAL WELLBEING IN
RELATION TO HAART-ERA LONG-TERM CLINICAL OUTCOMES FOR ADULT PHA
RW Burgoyne
Toronto General Hospital; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario