Narratives, Empathy Concern and Moral Judgements in Patients with Hiv Infection Who Decided Not to Tell About their Diagnosis.

JOSE SANTACRUZ; SANTAMARIA GARCIA HERNANDO; AGUSTÍN IBAÑEZ

Fiorenze

Congreso; European Psychiatry Association Congress; 2017

People with HIV usually are exposed to a sort of risk sexual behaviors. To face those risks HIV individuals go through a cognitiveprocess weighing the pros and cons of practicing safer sex (e.g. considering knowledge about HIV, expectancies related to usingcondoms, and social norms). However, some studies showing that sometimes, HIV individuals avoid and deny recomendations abouttheir sexual behavior and they decide take risks. One of these risk practices is known as "barebacking", defined as intentionalcondomless intercourse when risk of HIV transmission is present (1). Most models of HIV sexual transmission risk behavior in HIV are based upon social / health psychology theories to predict whether ornot individuals in function of their self-efficacy will use condoms when having sex. However, to date it is unknown if the risk behavior inHIV can be predicted by social cognitive factors which are recognized as cognitive mechanisms that allow humans to recognize andinteract in empathic ways with others (2-3).