Study Insights: Feelings, Grief, Medical Care (Text Version)

Feelings

How often do you feel anxious?

  • Never: 17.6%
  • Hardly ever: 30.9%
  • Every so often: 29.9%
  • Fairly frequently: 9.1%
  • At least 1x/week: 5.8%
  • Almost every day: 6.6%

How often do you feel angry?

  • Never: 31.0%
  • Hardly ever: 31.6%
  • Every so often: 25.9%
  • Fairly frequently: 5.2%
  • At least 1x/week: 3.4%
  • Almost every day: 2.9%

How often do you feel depressed?

  • Never: 22.3%
  • Hardly ever: 28.5%
  • Every so often: 27.0%
  • Fairly frequently: 8.3%
  • At least 1x/week: 7.1%
  • Almost every day: 6.9%

How often do you feel like you don't have a future?

  • Never: 43.0%
  • Hardly ever: 27.8%
  • Every so often: 14.0%
  • Fairly frequently: 6.8%
  • At least 1x/week: 3.3%
  • Almost every day: 4.8%

How often do you feel emotionally numb?

  • Never: 44.0%
  • Hardly ever: 27.7%
  • Every so often: 15.7%
  • Fairly frequently: 6.0%
  • At least 1x/week: 3.2%
  • Almost every day: 3.5%

How often do you feel threatened?

  • Never: 50.0%
  • Hardly ever: 29.8%
  • Every so often: 12.3%
  • Fairly frequently: 3.7%
  • At least 1x/week: 2.5%
  • Almost every day: 1.7%

How often do you have nightmares?

  • Never: 46.8%
  • Hardly ever: 31.3%
  • Every so often: 12.0%
  • Fairly frequently: 4.4%
  • At least 1x/week: 2.3%
  • Almost every day: 3.2%

How often do you have trouble sleeping?

  • Never: 14.5%
  • Hardly ever: 27.6%
  • Every so often: 25.3%
  • Fairly frequently: 13.4%
  • At least 1x/week: 6.5%
  • Almost every day: 12.7%

Grief

Considering the people with whom you were emotionally close and who died from AIDS, how much would you say that you still grieve their loss?

  • Not very much any more: 49.2%
  • I still grieve their loss: 41.8%
  • I still deeply grieve their loss: 2.3%
  • I still grieve their loss daily: 3.5%
  • Almost every day: 1.4%

How much grief do you have based on the number of those close to you that have died?

  • 0 people: 12.3%
  • 1-10 people: 55.5%
  • 11-20 people: 14.8%
  • 21-50 people: 9.5%
  • 51-100 people: 4.0%
  • 100+: 2.7%
  • Prefer not to say: 1.3%

Medical Care

I think my doctor's office has everything needed to provide me with complete care:

  • Disagree: 6.2%
  • Neutral: 6.1%
  • Agree: 87.8%

I have some doubts about some things about the medical care I receive:

  • Disagree: 72.8%
  • Neutral: 12.7%
  • Agree: 14.5%

I am dissatisfied with some things about the medical care I receive:

  • Disagree: 66.4%
  • Neutral: 13.7%
  • Agree: 19.9%

Because of the HIV epidemic, I never thought I would live this long:

  • Disagree: 39.6%
  • Neutral: 19.8%
  • Agree: 40.5%