| Autor: |
Modeste, Naomi N., Marshak, Helen P. Hopp, Green, Ian |
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The International Quarterly of Community Health Education; January 1998, Vol. 17 Issue: 4 p375-387, 13p |
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The purpose of this study was to identify AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and short-term behavioral intentions of adolescents attending five Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) parochial high schools in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. This is the first known research on AIDS to be conducted in parochial and specifically, SDA schools in the Caribbean and particularly, Trinidad and Tobago. Information gathered from this research will be useful in planning appropriate AIDS education and prevention programs for the schools represented in this survey.Students (N= 802) completed a questionnaire on AIDS. Less than half (37.6%) of the students indicated that they had received some instruction about AIDS in their school, and 74 percent wished that there was more AIDS education in the classroom. Ninety-one percent of respondents stated that they received most of their information about AIDS from the television. Females demonstrated a more positive attitude toward AIDS and people with AIDS. Females were more likely to hold “correct” beliefs about the causes of AIDS and scored higher in their intention to avoid risky sexual behaviors than did males. |
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