NCJ Number
110473
Journal
American Journal of Public Health Volume: 78 Issue: 1 Dated: (1988) Pages: 55-57
Date Published
1988
Length
3 pages
Annotation
This study examines the knowledge, attitudes, and misconceptions about AIDS among minorities in San Francisco high schools.
Abstract
The results reveal that white adolescents were more knowledgeable than Black adolescents about the cause, transmission, and prevention of AIDS. Black adolescents were more knowledgeable than their Latino peers. Black and Latino adolescents were approximately twice as likely as White adolescents to have misconceptions about the casual transmission of AIDS. Greater levels of perceived risk of contracting AIDS were associated with deficient knowledge and prevalent misconceptions. (Author abstract modified)