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AIDS/HIV awareness training for young people with severe learning difficulties: an evaluation of two school programmes
Author(s) -
Newens Andrew J,
McEwan Robert
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1995.22020267.x
Subject(s) - human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , sex education , qualitative research , psychology , medicine , training (meteorology) , medical education , nursing , family medicine , environmental health , sociology , population , social science , physics , meteorology
The need for sex education, counselling and HIV awareness training for young people with severe learning difficulties is discussed in relation to changes in community care over recent years A qualitative evaluation of two sex education programmes which include HIV awareness is presented using verbatim transcripts of observed sessions The involvement of nurses in such programmes and the relative merits of the two approaches observed are discussed