Psychological needs of patients with HIV/AIDS

  Objective   To understand the psycological needs of HIV/AIDS.

  Methods   Questionnaire and in-depth in2 terview methods were used to survey psychological needs of 111 HIV/AIDS.

  Results   Most of patients with HIV positive felt disbelive and afraid and didn't tell someone else after infection. The proportion of desiring to communicate with other infectioners, among the ones transmitted by drug and donon blood were 75.56% and 87.10% respectively, of which 94.29% and 100% took face-to-face communication as first choice.

  Conclusion   HIV/AIDS caused heavy stress. An effecive measure should be taken to improve the situation.