Document 0807
 DOCN  M9440807
 TI    An evaluation of a school-based AIDS/HIV education program for young
       adolescents.
 DT    9404
 AU    Newman C; DuRant RH; Ashworth CS; Gaillard G; Department of Medicine,
       Medical College of Georgia, Augusta; 30912.
 SO    AIDS Educ Prev. 1993 Winter;5(4):327-39. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94128506
 AB    This study evaluated the efficacy of a school-based AIDS/human
       immunodeficiency virus (HIV) education program on 6th and 7th grade
       students. Using a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group
       design, a control group and an education group (intervention I) received
       both pretest and posttest questionnaires and a second education group
       (intervention II) was posttested only. Students were evaluated using a
       modified version of the Centers for Disease Control's Health Risk
       Survey. Students who received AIDS education were less likely (p < or =
       0.0001) than the control group to report that they had changed their
       behavior to avoid getting AIDS, but thought they had a greater (p < or =
       0.0002) chance of acquiring AIDS as an adult. In the intervention I
       group, males who had never received prior AIDS instruction were more
       worried about acquiring AIDS as an adult (p < or = 0.013). In the
       intervention II group, the education had a significant impact on the
       level of knowledge about AIDS/HIV infection (p < or = 0.0003) and the
       degree of tolerance toward students with AIDS (p < or = 0.0008), but the
       effect was not greater than the learning that occurred in the other 2
       groups from testing alone. Students who were pretested were also less
       worried that they had been exposed to AIDS (p < or = 0.0001), more
       worried that they would die if they acquired AIDS (p < or = 0.05), and
       less likely to think AIDS patients should be isolated (p < or = 0.0005).
       Although this AIDS education program appeared to be moderately
       successful in this group of younger adolescents, significant learning
       also occurred fro testing alone.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  Child  Condoms  Female  *Health
       Education  Human  HIV Infections/*PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  *Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male
       Red Cross  Risk-Taking  Sex Behavior  *Sex Education  Southeastern
       United States  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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