TY - JOUR
T1 - Change in junior high school students' AIDS-related knowledge, misconceptions, attitudes, and HIV-preventive behaviors
T2 - Effects of a school-based intervention
AU - Siegel, D.
AU - DiClemente, R.
AU - Durbin, M.
AU - Krasnovsky, F.
AU - Saliba, P.
PY - 1995
Y1 - 1995
N2 - A school-based AIDS-prevention program for junior high school students was developed and implemented in an inner-city area in northern California that serves predominately African-American and Asian students. The curriculum, taught by science teachers, consisted of twelve classroom sessions using both didactic and interactive exercises covering sex education, HIV biology, drug use, decision-making and refusal skills, and public response to AIDS and community resources. Changes from baseline of self-reported responses to questions on pre- and posttests concerning AIDS knowledge and misconceptions, tolerance toward persons with AIDS, and high-risk behaviors were compared between intervention and control schools. Students in the intervention schools had a significant increase in AIDS knowledge (P < .0001) and became more tolerant of people with AIDS (P < .001) compared with students in the control school. Changes in high risk behavior could not be detected, perhaps due to the small number of sexually active students (24% of the sample). Students who increased their AIDS knowledge (p < .0001) as a result of the intervention became more tolerant of people with AIDS. A school-based HIV-prevention curriculum, taught by trained classroom teachers, can modify middle adolescents' HIV-related knowledge about the casual transmission of HIV, and their attitudes toward persons with AIDS.
AB - A school-based AIDS-prevention program for junior high school students was developed and implemented in an inner-city area in northern California that serves predominately African-American and Asian students. The curriculum, taught by science teachers, consisted of twelve classroom sessions using both didactic and interactive exercises covering sex education, HIV biology, drug use, decision-making and refusal skills, and public response to AIDS and community resources. Changes from baseline of self-reported responses to questions on pre- and posttests concerning AIDS knowledge and misconceptions, tolerance toward persons with AIDS, and high-risk behaviors were compared between intervention and control schools. Students in the intervention schools had a significant increase in AIDS knowledge (P < .0001) and became more tolerant of people with AIDS (P < .001) compared with students in the control school. Changes in high risk behavior could not be detected, perhaps due to the small number of sexually active students (24% of the sample). Students who increased their AIDS knowledge (p < .0001) as a result of the intervention became more tolerant of people with AIDS. A school-based HIV-prevention curriculum, taught by trained classroom teachers, can modify middle adolescents' HIV-related knowledge about the casual transmission of HIV, and their attitudes toward persons with AIDS.
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M3 - Article
C2 - 8924350
AN - SCOPUS:0029560833
SN - 0899-9546
VL - 7
SP - 534
EP - 543
JO - AIDS Education and Prevention
JF - AIDS Education and Prevention
IS - 6
ER -