"I believe the best kind of reform is having explicit and in-depth disclosure," he said this afternoon at a news conference at the State House.
Building rapport and trust and having a framework for enquiry was viewed as giving rise to more in-depth disclosure; the acupuncture treatment itself facilitated relaxation and trust, reported by both the practitioners and the women.
(A 32-year-old man, in-depth interview) Non-disclosure to non-family members was seen as important to prevent unwanted consequences such losing the job.
This study aims to provide an in-depth description of the disclosure experience, and identify factors that were significant to recipient women which influenced their reasoning as they formulated disclosure decisions.
The in-depth interviews revealed that disclosure is not always direct.
Promoting HIV disclosure requires in-depth and context-specific understanding of the factors that enable and undermine this process.
Putative active ingredients included the patients' "openness to the mind-body connection", consultational empathy, in-depth enquiry into bodily complaints, disclosure, the remedy matching process and, potentially, the homeopathic remedies themselves.
(A 36-year-old man, in-depth interview) Fear of HIV status disclosure in healthcare settings was seen to further hamper healthcare seeking and utilisation among PLHIV.
The interviews aimed at triangulating the issues raised by the care providers during in-depth interviews and understanding health providers' experience with disclosure and suggestions for improving disclosure.
Main topics - originally pre-determined based on the study objectives and on the quantitative findings we wanted to explore in-depth - covered included stigma, process and outcomes of disclosure, adherence and potential fear of disclosure; breastfeeding practices and challenges; discrimination by health providers.
These findings underscore the need for in-depth, context-specific understanding of the hurdles to disclosure and the need to implement locally relevant, needs-based and beneficiary responsive intervention programmes to promote disclosure.
