Comparison of feelings of shame, hostility and rumination in people with HIV according to the method of contracting the disease

Research HIV patients experience negative emotions such as shame, hostility and rumination after learning about their disease. These emotions cause isolation and endangering the health of patients. In this research, an attempt was made to examine emotions such as shame, hostility and rumination in patients according to the method of infection. The method of the study is descriptive, causal-comparative, which was conducted in 2017. 100 patients with HIV participated in the study through targeted sampling. The questionnaires include Cook's internalized shame questionnaire (1993), Redford's hostility (1998) and rumination (Tranpel and Campbell 1999), which were completed by the sample group. Analysis of variance was used to analyze the data and the findings showed that men suffering from joint injection method suffered from more shame (P<0.05). In the comparison of hostility and the method of infection, no significant difference was observed between them, but all the participants had experienced the feeling of anger. Patients who were infected with the common injection method have more negative self-evaluation in rumination. (P<0.01) The results showed that the feeling of shame and rumination of negative self-evaluation is different according to the method of infection in patients.