Abstract:
The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the relationships between feminine health related hardiness, social support, coping and health status of women with HIV/AIDS and to determine abilities of feminine in relation to health related hardiness, social support and coping in predicting health status of women with HIV/AIDS. The subjects were 90 women with HIV/AIDS who attended the Anonymous Clinics. by using random sampling technique, The Anonymous Clinics from nine community hospitals located in southern region were included in this study. Research instruments consisted of the Demographic Data Questionnaires, the Feminine Health-Related Hardiness Scale, the Social Support Questionnaires, the Way of Coping, and the Health Status Scale. All five instruments were content validated by a group of expert and tested for internal consistency. The Cronbachs alpha for the second to the fifth instruments were 0.88, 0.84, 0.91, and 0.89, respectively. Statistical techniques used for data analysis were descriptive statistics, Pearsons product moment correlation, and multiple regression.
The major findings were as follows:
1. Women with HIV/AIDS reported having good health status (X = 3.87, SD=0.53 ).
2. Feminine health related hardiness, social support, and coping were significantly positively correlated with health status (r = 0.43, 0.50, and 0.52 respectively, p <0.05).
3. For the predictive abilities, all predictors together were accounted for 43 percent of variance in predicting health status of women with HIV/AIDS (R2= .43, F = 21.65, p<0.05).