Document 2207
 DOCN  M94A2207
 TI    Fear and negative feelings as obstacles to prevent AIDS.
 DT    9412
 AU    Wilches I; PROMUJER, Bogota, Colombia.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):357 (abstract no. PD0036). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370368
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To analyze the feelings that AIDS brings about in young
       people and the relation of them with their sexual behaviours. METHODS:
       The study was developed with 554 senior students of both sexes and
       between 15 to 19 years old, from low-medium socioeconomic level and of a
       public school of Bogota. A test and workshops were used to know the
       feelings that the students have towards AIDS and how they influence the
       sexual behaviours they perform. A qualitative analysis of the results
       was done. RESULTS: AIDS produces negative feelings as fear, anxiety and
       sometimes indifference. Those feelings easily turn into attitudes of
       denial and negligence. Usually young people don't change sexual
       behaviours towards prevention of AIDS because of those feelings.
       DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS: The main feeling that education and
       information about AIDS use to change behaviours is fear not only to the
       transmission but also to sexuality it self. This strategy does not
       prevent early beginning of sexual relations and neither strengthen self
       care sexual behaviours. Education and information about AIDS have to
       start from a new way of seeing love and sexuality.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/  *PSYCHOLOGY
       Adolescence  Adult  *Attitude  Denial (Psychology)  Fear  Female  Health
       Education  Human  Male  Sex Behavior  MEETING ABSTRACT

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