Document 2269
 DOCN  M94A2269
 TI    Evaluation of AIDS knowledge before and after the Magic Johnson
       announcement.
 DT    9412
 AU    Calmes D; Brown CP; Singleton AF; Dept. of Pediatrics & Ob-Gyn,
       King-Drew Medical Center, Los; Angeles, CA 90059.
 SO    Int Conf AIDS. 1994 Aug 7-12;10(1):342 (abstract no. PC0304). Unique
       Identifier : AIDSLINE ICA10/94370306
 AB    OBJECTIVE: To evaluate current AIDS knowledge in an underserved minority
       population before and after Magic Johnson's announcement (MJA) that he
       was HIV (+). To evaluate an educational intervention. METHODS: An AIDS
       knowledge survey was administered to 25 mother-child dyads in the
       waiting room of the King-Drew Pediatric Clinic in 1991 before and after
       the MJA. In 1994, a randomized intervention program was initiated in
       which the intervention group viewed 2 AIDS videos featuring Magic
       Johnson. RESULTS: the 1991 pre-MJA survey, 66.7% of both Black mothers
       (B) and children achieved a 70% score. Among Hispanics (H), 62.5% of
       mothers and 37.5% of children achieved a score of 70%. In the post MJA
       survey 88.9% of B-mothers passed while only 44.4% B-children passed.
       Both H-mothers and H-children scored the same as in the first survey.
       Preliminary results from the 1994 survey have demonstrated that AIDS
       knowledge improved after the educational intervention. CONCLUSION: The
       initial survey demonstrated the need to educate high-risk minority
       populations. And suggested an increase in AIDS knowledge among B-mothers
       after MJA which was not evident among B-children, H-mothers or
       H-children. Finally, educational intervention will increase and maintain
       AIDS knowledge if the presentation includes visually interactive methods
       that are culturally-specific.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PREVENTION & CONTROL/  TRANSMISSION
       Adult  *Basketball  Child  Evaluation Studies  *Famous Persons  Female
       *Health Education  *Hispanic Americans  Human  Knowledge, Attitudes,
       Practice  Male  *Negroid Race  Videotape Recording  CLINICAL TRIAL
       MEETING ABSTRACT  RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL

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