Vocational Rehabilitation Services Tailored to Employment Status of Prime Working-Age Adults with HIV/AIDS

Although HIV is considered a long-term controllable infection and a chronic illness, obstacles and challenges of obtaining and maintaining employment among adults living with HIV/AIDS still remain. State vocational rehabilitation service can play an important role to help people with HIV/AIDS stay a...

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Published inThe Journal of rehabilitation Vol. 83; no. 3; pp. 28 - 36
Main Authors Mamboleo, George, Bengtson, Kevin, Wu, Jia-Rung, Kaya, Cahit, Johnson, Ebonee T, Tang, Xiaolei, Yaghmaian, Rana, Chan, Fong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Alexandria National Rehabilitation Association 01.07.2017
Subjects
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Age
AIDS
Biomarkers
Community support
Counseling
Disability
Discriminant analysis
Education
Employment
Health aspects
Health insurance
HIV
HIV patients
Human immunodeficiency virus
Infections
Laboratories
Mental health
Public radio
Quality of life
Social security
Stress
Surveillance
Unemployment
Vocational rehabilitation
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Summary:Although HIV is considered a long-term controllable infection and a chronic illness, obstacles and challenges of obtaining and maintaining employment among adults living with HIV/AIDS still remain. State vocational rehabilitation service can play an important role to help people with HIV/AIDS stay at work or return to work. It is however, unclear whether state vocational rehabilitation agencies provide tailored services that are based on the stay-at-work vs return-to-work status of clients with HIV/AIDS rather than providing the same set of services for all HIV clients. The aim of this study was to investigate whether vocational rehabilitation service provision is different between persons with HIV/AIDS who are (a) employed but applying services to maintain employment, and (b) unemployed and applying for services to gain employment. Multiple discriminant analysis (MDA) results revealed that employed and unemployed persons with HIV at application did in fact receive different sets of services directed to whether the goal of rehabilitation was to address concerns related to job retention or the goal is to find a job after a period of unemployment. Findings of this study provide empirical evidence supporting that counselors do provide services tailored to the stay-at-work and return-to-work needs of individuals with HIV/AIDS.
ISSN:0022-4154