Influence of Resentment and Forgivingness on Quality of Life in People Living With HIV

Hiv Clinical Trial

— FORGHIV  

Official title:

Influence of Resentment and Forgivingness on Quality of Life in People Living With HIV

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05660148
• Other study ID #: PI2022_843_0010
• Status: Recruiting
• Start date: December 13, 2022
• Est. completion date: June 2024

Study information

• Verified date: September 2023
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
• Contact: Jean-Philippe Lanoix, Pr
• Phone: 03 22 08 80 51
• Email: lanoix.jean-philippe[@]chu-amiens.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

Life stress is strongly associated with poor mental and physical health and its effects explain significant morbidity and mortality. Forgiveness is one of the factors that can influence the effects of stress on health. By definition, forgiveness is the release of negative feelings, emotions, and behaviors - and possibly the release of positive feelings - toward an offender. Numerous studies have shown that forgiveness is associated with several mental and physical health benefits. The literature argues that high levels of propensity to forgive (trait) predispose that person to experience forgiveness (state) more often. In other words, a stronger forgiving disposition is believed to increase the experience of forgiveness, which, in turn, mitigates the negative effects of stress. Forgiveness is therefore a coping style that can play a beneficial role in the stress-health relationship. Patients living with HIV (PLHIV) are patients particularly exposed to stress, not only because of their chronic pathology but also because of the stigma attached to this disease. Very few studies have studied the impact of forgiveness (state or trait) on the physical health of PLHIV and even fewer the impact of an intervention promoting the disposition to forgive. The objective of this prospective observational monocentric study is to show in a very secular country that forgiveness has an effect on well-being as well as on other health parameters.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 206
• Est. completion date: June 2024
• Est. primary completion date: June 2024
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Belonging to the PLHIV followed at the Amiens University Hospital, not likely to move within the year

• Possibility of follow-up in teleconsultation (usual support of the service)

• Benefiting from a social security scheme

• Consent to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• Erratic follow-up (non-compliance, predictable move) or moribund patient

• Illiterate or not speaking french

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Forgiveness
• Health
• Hiv
• Stigma
• Stress

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Amiens	Amiens

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	establishment of correlation between the inclination to forgiveness and the quality of life		18 months