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Psychiatric perspective of pediatric human immunodeficiency virus infection
1Department of Psychiatry, Suncoast Medical Clinic, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33701, USA.
Insights
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a chronic childhood disease, impacting adolescents and families. Understanding its epidemiology, diagnosis, and psychiatric effects is crucial for comprehensive care.
Area of Science:
- Medical Science
- Public Health
- Psychiatry
Background:
- Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is increasingly a chronic childhood disease.
- Adolescents and individuals with HIV experience longer survival rates.
- HIV presents ongoing challenges to the medical community.
Purpose of the Study:
- To provide a comprehensive overview of HIV infection in children and adolescents.
- To highlight the psychiatric and neuropsychiatric aspects of HIV.
- To discuss the broader impact of HIV on families and healthcare workers.
Main Methods:
- Computerized literature searches of MEDLINE and AIDSline.
- Inclusion of research and review papers from medical, psychiatric, and psychology journals.
- Acquisition of statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National AIDS Clearinghouse.
Main Results:
- The overview covers epidemiology, transmission, and diagnosis of HIV.
- Psychiatric and neuropsychiatric manifestations are detailed.
- Impact on families, caretakers, and healthcare workers is examined.
Conclusions:
- HIV infection exemplifies the biopsychosocial model in psychiatry.
- It involves viral disease biology with psychiatric symptoms.
- Societal factors significantly complicate HIV management.
Background:
Infection due to human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has become a chronic disease of childhood, with increasing rates among adolescents and longer survival of those infected. This illness and its victims present a continuing challenge to the medical community.
Methods:
We used computerized literature searches (MEDLINE and AIDSline) to identify research and review papers from medical, psychiatric, and psychology journals; we obtained statistics directly from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National AIDS Clearinghouse.
Results:
This overview of the topic includes epidemiology, transmission, diagnosis, psychiatric and neuropsychiatric manifestations, intervention, and the impact on families, caretakers, and health care workers.
Conclusions:
To psychiatrists, this disease presents the epitome of the biopsychosocial model, encompassing the biology of a viral disease with psychiatric manifestations, complicated by the societal place in which it has become entrenched.