Exploring Resilience and its Correlates in HIV/AIDS Positive People in Lahore

Abstract

Resilience is ones’ ability to bounce back in distressing situations and gains interest of healthcare practitioners from across the world as an important factor influencing treatment adherence, quality of life, treatment outcome and psychological distressed particularly in chronic and terminal conditions. Present study was part of an elaborated research project exploring several dimensions of People living with HIV/AIDS in Lahore. Present study was designed to explore the level of resilience and its associated demographic factors in HIV/AIDS positive people residing in Lahore. A sample of 300 HIV/AIDS positive people was taken from treatment centres of Punjab AIDS control program including men, women and transgenders. Findings show an interesting set of associations observed between resilience and demographic characteristics of the participants particularly age, gender, education, marital status, monthly income and family system. The findings were discussed in the light of previous researches conducted to study the same phenomena in HIV/AIDS positive people and found to be helpful to gain insight into this pertinent area of people living with HIV/AIDS.