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Document 0365
DOCN M9630365
TI Student opinion leaders and HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk behavior.
DT 9603
AU Jaccard J; Levinson RA; Beamer LA; State University of New York, Albany,
USA.
SO J Am Coll Health. 1995 Mar;43(5):216-23. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96072120
AB This research applied the construct of opinion leadership to the health
area of AIDS. Approximately 290 college students completed a
questionnaire that identified individuals whom peers tended to use as
sources of information about AIDS. The results showed that, among men,
the AIDS opinion leaders tended to have a larger number of sexual
partners than their nonleader counterparts and that they were no more
likely to practice safer sex or be more knowledgeable about safer sex.
Female AIDS opinion leaders tended to engage in less sexual activity
than their nonleader counterparts, but showed a greater reluctance to
communicate with men about condom use. In addition, female AIDS opinion
leaders were neither more knowledgeable about safer sex nor more likely
to engage in safer sex than were their nonleader counterparts.
DE Adult Condoms Female Human HIV Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL
*Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Male New England Risk-Taking *Sex
Behavior *Social Dominance JOURNAL ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).