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The relationship between knowledge, attitudes and degree of contact with AIDS and HIV
Author(s) -
Robbins I,
Cooper A,
Bender M P
Publication year - 1992
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 - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1992.tb01874.x
Subject(s) - psychology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , degree (music) , clinical psychology , social psychology , medicine , family medicine , acoustics , physics
This study examined the relationship between knowledge, attitudes, and degree of contact with AIDS and HIV for three groups of people nurses, psychology students and design students using a standardized questionnaire The questionnaire differentiated between the groups on all three dimensions with nurses having most knowledge but least positive attitudes There was no relationship between knowledge and attitudes for the three groups although contact and knowledge were related for the design students and attitudes and contact were related for the psychology students For all groups the strongest relationship was between attitudes and contact The implications of the results for training courses are discussed