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Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
Pain in HIV/AIDS : characteristics, contributing factors and the effects of a six-week peer-led exercise and education intervention.
Abstract
dc:description.abstractThe central premise of this thesis was that pain is a problem in persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), that this pain is biopsychosocial in nature, and as such may have different characteristics in different sub-groups. It was also hypothesised that pain in PLWHA can be effectively managed using a biopsychosocial treatment.
Degree
thesis:*- Grantor dc:publisher.institution
- Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Year dc:date.issued
- 2013
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Parker, Romy
- Advisors dc:contributor.advisor
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- Stein, Dan J
- Jelsma, Jennifer
Rights
- Language dc:language.iso
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Handle dc:identifier.uri
- http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10621
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/10621