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DOCN M9480196
TI Attitudes toward people with AIDS and implications for school-based
youth AIDS education.
DT 9410
AU Handler A; Lampman C; Levy S; Weeks K; Rashid J; Flay B; Department of
Community Health Sciences, University of Illinois; at Chicago.
SO AIDS Educ Prev. 1994 Apr;6(2):175-83. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/94289151
AB This study examines attitudes toward people with AIDS (PWAs) of a group
of 853 7th, 8th, and 9th graders living in high-risk communities in the
suburbs of a large Midwestern city. Females appear to be more tolerant
than males, and whites appear to be more tolerant than other
racial/ethnic groups with respect to attitudes toward PWAs. Although
knowledge about actual modes of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
transmission is not correlated with attitudes toward PWAs, students with
greater knowledge about HIV transmission through casual contact,
transmission of HIV through blood products, ways of preventing HIV
infection, and myths about HIV prevention have more tolerant attitudes
toward PWAs. Students who have ever had sexual intercourse are
significantly less tolerant of PWAs. Implications of these findings for
youth AIDS education are presented.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
*PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION Adolescence *Attitude Female *Health
Education Human Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Male Midwestern
United States Minority Groups/EDUCATION/*PSYCHOLOGY 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).