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Research Method for Social Workers
De’Vaka Newton
Walden University
SOCW 6301
Professor Adam Quinn
July 5, 2020
Research Method for Social Workers
Introduction/Background
The research was conducted to determine the barrier and facilitator to HIV testing cases among gays and transgender women in Jamaican city, Kingston. The research was qualitative. HIV has been one of the world pandemics for some many years. Health facilities and social workers have been working around the clock to attain the best curative measures of the AIDS disease. Researchers has also been playing a role of the attaining the best evaluation about the causes of HIV and the difficulties between that lowers the testing process of HIV and AIDS across the various persons in the population. The research was evaluating the reasons of the prevalence in the Jamaica Kingston city among the young men who have sex with fellow men and transgender women. The study qualitatively analyzed the potential of over presentation of the transgender and gay population.
Literature Review
Barriers of HIV Testing
Mistreatment by Health or Social Workers
Most of the health workers and social worker employees mistreat HIV victims which are against the codes of ethics. Most of the HIV victims express the experience with the health care workers across the care facilities. The staff of the medical environment scares the interaction process during the HIV testing procedure. Mistreatment by healthcare providers is causing a big barrier for the victims to access HIV testing. Transgender women expressed their harsh time with health staff during counseling (Logie et al., 2017). The transgender women also expressed the disparaging aspects that they experience after scanned with HIV.
Due to intersection aspects of stigma associated with HIV, age consideration, sexuality issues, and gender identity MSM and transgender women they fear to undergo HIV ad sexual intervention process. The Stigmatization also reduces the attitude for the both victimizations to participate in HIV awareness (Logie et al., 2017). It has become necessary for the MSM and transgender women to hide their aspects of gender identity and sexuality from the care workers. The health providers are prone of shaming the patients with promiscuous sexuality in participating in the accessibility of HIV testing (Logie et al., 2017). Lack of social respect in all ways confirms that can prevent a victim from accessing HIV patient from attending the facilities of testing.
Confidentiality Concern
The concern of patient confidentiality is another issue that reduces the chances of the victims in accessing the HIV facilities. According to health care facilities, the setup of the HIV kits should observe confidentiality, but in Jamaica, MSM and transgender women express that the testing kits privacy often compromises their confidentiality. A good exemplary is that all the clinical services set up are in the same areas (Logie et al., 2017). The key informant informants of HIV testing for clients should be addressing confidentiality in the public services. MSM and transgender women fear to access the clinics because of the confidentiality things. Some of the studies confirm that most of the patients’ information sometimes is perceived by the fellow patients due to combined clinical services (Logie et al., 2017). The stigma and the confidentiality issues contribute to interpersonal barrier regarding the fear of attending to HIV testing clinics.
HIV Stigma
The related stigma to HIV is the main issues in the Jamaica hinder the accessibility of the testing clinics of HIV by both transgender women and the MSM. Moreover, most of the MSM are overwhelmed on participating in the testing exercise, but due to threatening information produces the weird among the transgender women and the MSM. The health care facilities and staffs do not provide support and hope the young people who fear the testing of HIV. The stigma worsens the situation after the personality involved shows that one can die for being positive to his or her life (Logie et al., 2017). The people of Jamaica require or need confidential in their health reports in the public. They also require positive perception.
Methodology
The study used participant to attain qualitative analysis results. Qualitative analysis procedure was designed as partner between the Jamaica AIDS Support for Life and other association concern HIV to conduct human rights health facilities concerning HIV testing. The agencies recruited participants and key interview was done. It involved 53 interviewees with unstructured design, 20 young gays, 20 young transgender, and 13 members of LGBT (Logie et al., 2017). Age was consideration and the participants were interviewed in turns. The study chose young participants form population through basics on the socio-demographic questionnaire before joining the focus group.
Findings
The data was sampled into proportions according to the perceived barrier. Additionally, the sampling of the participants was a consideration of the facilitators that population understands about HIV testing barriers. The study found that the mistreatment was the barrier that hinders most of the healthcare from testing young MSM and transgender women (Logie et al., 2017). The research found also, lack of confidentiality and stigma that restricted victims from into the interpersonal relationship that hinders the between the community and structure of the healthcare systems. Facilitator that hinders the HIV testing in Jamaican capital city Kingston included the structure of the clinical sets and was found that it has a wrong set in public areas (Logie et al., 2017). The study also found that the young victims leak social support from the health staff. Finally, the research found that the there was benefits of knowledge with the levels of individual factors.
Discussion
The study was exploring the issues of HIV testing of young and transgender women in Jamaica. Articulately, it has evaluated the exact cause of the failure of HIV testing among the Jamaican MSM and transgender women (Logie et al., 2017). Testing of HIV perception among the people was another reason for study that wanted to underside that is within the population with the HIV victims. The health setting encourages the reduction of the HIV testing rate in Jamaica. The victims anticipate stigma due to lack of confidentiality and stigma from health care providers (Logie et al., 2017). Therefore, exposing of patient information, stigma, harsh treatment, and poor testing facilities setting are the major hindering factors in the HIV testing.
References
Logie, C. H., Lacombe‐Duncan, A., Brien, N., Jones, N., Lee‐Foon, N., Levermore, K., & Newman, P. A. (2017). Barriers and facilitators to HIV testing among young men who have sex with men and transgender women in Kingston, Jamaica: a qualitative study. Journal of the International AIDS Society, 20(1), 21385.
