”I ain’t goin’ in there!” : HIV-infekterade patienters upplevelse av vården

Sammanfattning: Background: HIV is a worldwide spread disease with many deaths. People with the disease have previously been met with attitudes, stigma and discrimination in various contexts. A caring relationship should be built on empathy, respect and communication, where the patient is not seen as their illness, but as a person. Today, there are laws that are there to protect the patient, however, there is a lack of knowledge about what is current. Health care workers knowledge in the 2000s has improved, but there is still a lack of knowledge. Aim: To illustrate how patients with HIV experience health care. Method: The literature review was conducted with twelve scientific articles of which two articles were quantitative and the other qualitative. Results: The results revealed three main themes; Different expressions of fear, Perceived negative attitudes and stigmatization, as well as The wish to be lovingly treated in health care. The first main theme showed that the fear of health professionals could influence patients' experience and outreach of health care and how the fear turned into concrete actions. Under the second main theme, negative attitudes and stigmatization was described and how the HIV- positive patients perceived this negative behavior. In the third main theme emerged how HIV patients wished that the care was. Discussions: The main topics were health care workers discriminatory behavior and how it could be linked to their fears and ignorance. It is discussed about human behavior and what it might do. The fear could lead to negative consequences for patients with HIV when the nurse's ethical code and guidelines were not followed. How to change negative attitudes and stigma were discussed. The patients' desire for a changed attitude is discussed and what health professionals can do to change that.