Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2015
Multicenter StudyA Cross-Sectional Relationship Between Social Capital, Self-Compassion, and Perceived HIV Symptoms.
Individual resources of social capital and self-compassion are associated with health behaviors and perceived symptoms, suggesting that both are positive resources that can be modified to improve a person's symptom experience. ⋯ Employment and social capital modestly predicted current HIV symptom experience. Social capital can be incorporated into symptom management interventions, possibly as a way to reframe a person's symptom appraisal. This may be increasingly important as PLWH age. The relationship between employment status and HIV symptom experience was significant and should be explored further.