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M L Osborne1, J A Kistner, B Helgemo
1University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
Abstract:
Surveyed AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes of parents and their children to provide descriptive information on views about school policies concerning HIV-infected children and to test hypotheses regarding links between parents' and children's AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes. Results indicate that parents desire more information about presence of persons with AIDS (PWA) in the schools than is permissible by law and that a significant minority of parents objected to allowing HIV-infected students in schools. As predicted, more accurate parental knowledge of AIDS and knowing a PWA were associated with greater willingness to allow their children to interact with PWA and with greater acceptance of allowing HIV-infected children to attend regular classes. Support was also found for links between parents' and children's attitudes toward PWA. Implications for educating parents about AIDS transmission and inclusion of parents in the implementation of AIDS educational programs are discussed.
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