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AIDS: What You and Your Friends Need to Know — A Lesson Plan for Adolescents
Author(s) -
Miller Leslie,
Downer Ann
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of school health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.851
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 1746-1561
pISSN - 0022-4391
DOI - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1988.tb00546.x
Subject(s) - lesson plan , psychology , medical education , medicine , plan (archaeology) , family medicine , mathematics education , archaeology , history
The AIDS knowledge and attitudes of students attending an urban high school in Seattle were pretested. Subsequently, a 50‐minute AIDS lesson plan was designed using the findings. Instruction occurred one month following the pretest, with a posttest administered one week after instruction. Significant increases in knowledge about AIDS, and parallel changes in tolerant and compassionate beliefs about people with AIDS were observed. Learning outcomes were retained at retesting eight weeks after instruction. Prior to receiving the AIDS lesson, 34% of students listed schools as their source of learning about AIDS. Schools became the major source of learning (82%) after one hour of instruction.