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The effects of a participative programme on Irish pupils' attitudes to HIV/AIDS

Author(s) -

Randall D. Swain,

M. McNamara

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

health education research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.601

H-Index - 103

eISSN - 1465-3648

pISSN - 0268-1153

DOI - 10.1093/her/12.2.267

Subject(s) - irish , compassion , semantic differential , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , psychology , social psychology , developmental psychology , medical education , medicine , family medicine , political science , philosophy , linguistics , law

The study is concerned with a general humanistic approach to health (lifeskills) education and its application to the specific issue of HIV/AIDS in the Republic of Ireland. A programme of five classroom sessions, structured to encourage active participation, was administered to an experimental group of 20 participants (10 male and 10 female). There was an equivalent control group. Attitudes towards 10 AIDS-related person concepts were measured before and after the programme using semantic differential rating scales. Highly significant differences were found between groups in post-programme attitudes to the concepts. There were no gender differences. It is concluded that this participative programme strongly influences AIDS-related attitudes, and, in particular, promotes compassion towards those with HIV/AIDS.

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