I am conducting a systematic review on resilience in high-risk, HIV-negative sexual minority men. If you're willing, would you mind sending any peer-reviewed articles you may have authored, or know of, that are possibly a good fit? Articles need to meet the following criteria:
- biologically-born men (i.e., not transgender men)
- sexual minority (e.g., gay, bisexual), OR men who have sex with men (MSM)
- HIV-negative sample or subsample
- at least 50% or entire sample reported 1+ of the following:
- elevated mean score on mental health measure (e.g., >16 on CES-D)
- substance use, including polydrug use
- childhood sexual abuse
- partner abuse of intimate partner violence
- suicidal thoughts or attempts
- psychiatric diagnoses
- negative affect
- evidence of resilience: psychological strength (e.g., coping), protective factor (e.g. neighborhood cohesion), positive developmental milestone (e.g., graduated college), positive adaptation to adversity (e.g., meaning making)
If you are unsure, I'd appreciate a citation or PDF anyway, and then I can screen the article. Please backchannel articles to [email protected]. Thanks so much for any help!
In my graduate study I'm working on coping among HIV-positive people, and during the litreview I've found lots of relevant articles. But since you're focusing on HIV-negative men who have sex with men it seems to be a little bit harder. I've been looking in the webofscience catalogue (used Boolean logic: resilience AND men who have sex with men NOT HIV), and failed to find any of the relevant articles. Probably the best advice is to contact your librarians... They might be extremely helpful.
sorry, I can't be of any help in this regard.
Good luck with the search and the work as a whole.
Hi Eva, I've published some research in this area and am sharing a few articles you may find helpful. Best wishes, Julie
Thanks, folks, for ideas and efforts. Julie--I will definitely include these in the group of articles to be reviewed.
Julia--I have a paper I'm attaching on the role of social support for people living with HIV that may help your studies!
Hi Eva,
Thank you so much! It's actually very close to what I was looking for, as adherence to HAART is a great part of my research, kind of an outcome. Please, if you have any papers dealing with stigma, coping strategies, resilience in PLHIV I'd be happy to get them.
Have a great day!
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