A study on psychopathological dimensions of mania, paranoia and schizophrenia in HIV infected male and female

Pages: 1039-1041
Sajni Rathwal (Department of Psychology, Govt. College, Dujana, Haryana)
O. P. Sharma (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

This study aims to detect different psychopathological dimensions of Mania, Paranoia and Schizophrenia caused by HIV- Infection. For this study a sample of 200 (both male & female) HIV infected patients was randomly selected from different NGOs working in New Delhi and Network of Positive People in Haryana. The patients who participated in the present study ranged between the age of 18 and 45 years. All the selected participants were administered with Clinical Scales of Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI). The clinical sample was constructed of only those patients who volunteered themselves and were permitted by consultant doctors. The normative matching sample (n=200) was randomly drawn from the general population of Delhi and Haryana. Similarly the normative sample was also tested the same tests as in case of clinical sample. With a view to accomplish the main objective, various statistical techniques have been used the most pertinent which are descriptive statistics,, Means, Standard Deviations, and t-ratio to analyses the data. Results of this study depicts that there was a significant mean difference between HIV-infected Male and Female and Control Group Male and Female with respect to different clinical scale of Psychopathological dimensions Mania, Paranoia, and Schizophrenia.