ABSTRACT
A survey of staff opinion using anonymous questionnaires was conducted simultaneously in five French psychiatric hospitals in January and February 1995. The 36 questions concerned collective HIV prevention practices for hospitalised patients, actual participation in various actions, and personal choice and judgement concerning prevention strategies, especially with regard to sexual transmission. The paper gives an initial data analysis of the 1473 questionnaires collected. In general, psychiatric hospital staff feel concern for AIDS issues and seem to be already involved in specific prevention strategies.
Subject(s)
Attitude of Health Personnel , Cross Infection/prevention & control , HIV Infections/prevention & control , Hospitals, Psychiatric , Infection Control/methods , Personnel, Hospital/psychology , Adult , Cross Infection/blood , Cross Infection/transmission , Female , HIV Infections/blood , HIV Infections/transmission , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice , Humans , Male , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The untiring questioning on the part of the two sources, somatic and psychological, in illness make a pair with contradistinction between "clinical" research and "scientific" research. However, they are good theoretic and pragmatic arguments in favour of their complementarity and full respective lawfullness. In this purpose, one had to scrutinize the explicit and implicit definitions, too often adulterated by presuppositions and exclusive preferences.
