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Document 0336
DOCN M9630336
TI Misconceptions about AIDS among children who can identify the major
routes of HIV transmission.
DT 9603
AU Wells EA; Hoppe MJ; Simpson EE; Gillmore MR; Morrison DM; Wilsdon A;
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
SO J Pediatr Psychol. 1995 Oct;20(5):671-86. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96084584
AB Described knowledge about HIV transmission among 1,048 third, fourth,
fifth, and sixth graders from a multiethnic urban school district.
Participants answered questions about behaviors leading to HIV
transmission and about mechanisms of transmission. Children at all grade
levels demonstrated a high level of recognition of the three primary
routes of HIV transmission (through sex, through drug needle sharing,
and in utero). However, children who knew about these routes also had
many misconceptions about the mechanisms involved in acquiring HIV
through these routes and about the ways HIV is not transmitted.
Misconceptions decreased with grade and socioeconomic status (SES).
Although there were no race/ethnicity differences in knowledge of actual
routes and mechanisms of HIV transmission, there were more
misconceptions about routes and mechanisms of HIV transmission among
African American and Asian American children than among white children.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
*PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION Adolescence *Attitude to Health Child
Female Health Education Human HIV Infections/PREVENTION &
CONTROL/*PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Male
Risk Factors Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).