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AIDS-phobia, contact with AIDS, and AIDS-related job stress in hospital workers
J H Pleck1, L O'Donnell, C O'Donnell
1Department of Psychology, Wheaton College, Norton, MA 02766.
Journal of Homosexuality
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
In a survey of 237 hospital workers involved in the care of AIDS patients at a major AIDS inpatient-care facility, negative attitudes toward AIDS and AIDS patients (AIDS-phobia) and AIDS-related job stress (AIDS-stress) were common. In multivariate analyses, AIDS-phobia is significantly higher among older staff, those having low contact with AIDS patients (AIDS-contact), and those holding homophobic attitudes. AIDS-phobic attitudes and low AIDS-contact can be interpreted as predicting each other. Finally, AIDS-stress is predicted by low contact with AIDS and AIDS-phobic attitudes.