Document 0196
 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

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