Barriers and Facilitators of Self-care in Caregivers of HIV/AIDS patients: A Narrative Review

Long-term care for people with chronic illness and disability is a very important issue worldwide. Today, HIV/AIDS is one of the challenges in long-term care. Therefore, the present study aimed to review the barriers and facilitators of self-care in caregiving of HIV/AIDS patients. This study is a narrative review. In order to complete this article, researchers conducted computer search with keywords in databases such as Google scholar, SID, Iranmedex, Medline, PubMed, Springer, Science Direct, ProQuest. Finally, a complete overview of 36 articles has been used to write this article. The findings of this review study led to the classification of materials in two general categories and three sub-classes. 1. Self-care impediments to caregivers of HIV/AIDS patients including individual barriers, interpersonal relationships and barriers Organizational; and 2. Self-care facilitators in caregivers of HIV/AIDS patients, including individual facilitators, interpersonal and organizational facilitator. Be the current review findings suggest that taking care of people living with HIV / AIDS patients often causes great stress and disappointment. As a result, it is necessary to take into account the needs of this group of caregivers and the impact of care on their physical and mental health, and, with a greater understanding of these individuals, a strong foundation for the development of effective interventions such as education, social support, home-based visit planning can be provided