Le rôle des facteurs psychologiques dans la réalisation d'une démarche de dépistage du VIH

Psychological factors (behavioral, cognitive and emotional) are largely involved in adherence to the screening process, with socio-demographic factors. These results show the impossibility of isolating the different factors potentially involved in the screening process to account for the complexity of human behavior in such a context. The decision of submitting oneself to HIV testing is therefore part of the Transactional, Integrative and Multifactorial Model. Otherwise, the study of the literature reveals that research on the psychological factors associated with HIV testing are essentially cross-sectional and that none of them studies the involvement of psychological factors in the context of screening. This topic, which is the subject of ongoing research, deserves to be studied to better understand the implication of psychological factors once the decision is taken to carry out an HIV test.