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Studying personality characteristics of HIV-infected women in penitentiary institutions

Kovalenko SN, Solovyov, SL State Medical Academy. II Mechnikov St.-Petersburg incidence of HIV infection worldwide and in Russia tends to increase. More rapidly growing number of cases among young people who inject drugs. Becoming increasingly evident that along with social and health issues need to study psychological patterns of formation of drug addiction. One of the priorities - the study of personality characteristics, its socio-psychological characteristics. Personality always has and carries a hidden power, the internal potency. At the beginning of life, these qualities have different ranges of uncertainty, gradually, through the character education and contacts with relevant microenvironment, they develop in a particular social direction and becoming more mixed. In contrast to the types of temperament and character traits that are stable and virtually unchanged parameters of the psychic personality, personality traits can change over a lifetime. Before each person at some point in opening up prospects for change and the boundaries of these changes are closely linked with the social environment. According to many authors, the antisocial behavior of drug users is observed long before the drug [2]. In adolescence, it is manifested in disorderly conduct, vagrancy, extorting money from younger, early promiscuous sexual activity. The object of our study were people who inject drugs, are HIV positive with chronic hepatitis B and C, and in situations of penitentiary institutions. Materials and methods. The study included two groups of women prisoners in 100 people aged 20 to 35 years. Randomization study was carried out upon receipt of prisoners from the stage. The period of detention in both groups ranged from half to three years. The first group of 100 people drawn from the infected prisoners and was the main object of study. The second group of 100 people consisted of persons not subject to the above diagnosis, healthy prisoners and was selected as the control group.