Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Blog 10

Well my simulation is going to end tonight. It was very hard keeping up with all of the pills I had to take. I had chosen example A simply because I figured all of the regimens would be hard to deal with, so I just went with the first choice. I wrote my journal entries in my composition book that I actually used for school. I would make one to two entries per day. Tomorrow I will work on typing up my entries and review the rest of the slides for the module. I hope that this preparation pays off like it did for the last quiz. I studied the slides days before I took the quiz and it really made a difference because I didn’t have to keep going back and forth to read the slides during the timed quiz. I only missed one of my does during my entire week on the “medication” and I thought that was a good thing, but when you think of it what could happen if you forgot in real life? I intend to write about any research I find out about the medicine that I forgot to take. I hope that all of you are keeping up with your studies during these intense last few weeks of school.
The question of the week this week was very interesting and was asking who we would tell if we found out that we were HIV positive. I always thought about this question before being asked it in this class and I knew the only person I would tell would be my mother. I would probably tell her with tears in my eyes and I’m sure it wouldn’t be easy, but I would let her know. She and I are very close and I would want her to know, even though she would be hurt, I know that she would be there for me and support me no matter what. I would consider telling my very best friend, but it wouldn’t be until I had come to accept myself and be comfortable with my diagnosis. I would tell my mother right away, but anyone else would have to wait a while before they found out.


Did You Know?

According to a report written in Psychology & Sociology, there are surprisingly few studies that examine differences in HIV knowledge between black and white college students. I am currently researching organizations and teams that are trying to reach out to the black college community. I feel as though with the numbers of young, black adults infected with HIV so high, more should and could be done to at least spread awareness. This report also made a good point in saying that Facebook is a good way to spread the word, since it is such a popular way of communication now.


http://esciencenews.com/articles/2008/08/27/study.reveals.gap.hiv.testing.knowledge.among.college.students

3 comments:

  1. In real life if you had missed doses, depending on how many doses, you could possibly become resistant to the drug regimen you were on. I missed a couple of doses myself...it was hard to keep up!

    In my Community Health class I read a statistic that stated that blacks are the highest percentage that has HIV right now in America. More education needs to go to that population. Unfortunately there are always governmental obstacles in the way. One obstacle, in my opinion, is the abstience only education that's thrown out there. It was just renewed with our latest health care bill. I hope that they do away with that ignorant education...it apparently doesn't work.

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  2. I hated this assignment. I couldn't remember to take the pills, and it was hard swallowing the peanut M & M's. I would only hope that if this really happened to me that I would be able to focus more.

    I feel there is not enough awareness whether it is about white or black students with HIV. More needs to be done to get the point across that college students need to be having safe sex.

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  3. Maybe that is a study we could do on the UCF campus. I'll have to speak with my chair and see what he thinks.

    As for the simulation if I had made it the once a day pill, Atripla, you wouldn't have learned as much from the experience. Like most people you would have said "Wow, I only have to take one pill a day." "Guess have HIV isn't that bad, after all."

    Now you realize how difficult keeping up the medication is and what types of side effects you may experience, you will hopefully keep yourself save from harm.

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