Document 0900
 DOCN  M95A0900
 TI    HIV prevention beliefs among urban African-American youth.
 DT    9510
 AU    Stevenson HC; Davis G; Weber E; Weiman D; Abdul-Kabir S; University of
       Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education,; Psychology in Education
       Division, Philadelphia 19104-6216, USA.
 SO    J Adolesc Health. 1995 Apr;16(4):316-23. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/95337118
 AB    PURPOSE: This study investigates specific beliefs related to prevention
       of AIDS and HIV infection among African-American teenagers. METHODS:
       This study administered valid and reliable measures of HIV/AIDS risk
       knowledge and prevention beliefs to 150 African-American teenagers.
       Demographic and psychosocial data were gathered. RESULTS: Black
       teenagers respond in socially acceptable and undesirable ways and this
       ambivalence can be explained within the theory of reasoned action. These
       teens simultaneously believed in the importance of safe sex behaviors
       while expressing doubt about the viability of some safe sex behaviors.
       Females demonstrated higher self-efficacy and self-control beliefs while
       males were more likely to endorse culturally loaded suspicious beliefs
       about AIDS contraction and transmission. CONCLUSIONS: Those teenagers
       who perceived themselves as highly knowledgeable scored lower on
       reliable AIDS Knowledge and Prevention Beliefs measures than those who
       claimed moderate AIDS knowledge. Some of these Know It All teenagers may
       reflect a subculture of pseudo-confidence that requires special
       interventions.
 DE    Adolescence  *Adolescent Psychology  Blacks/*PSYCHOLOGY  Female  Health
       Education  Human  HIV Infections/ETHNOLOGY/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/*PSYCHOLOGY  *Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male  Sex Behavior
       Sex Factors  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  Urban Population  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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