AEGiS-APPJ: As Assessment of AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Among Selected College and University Students

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As Assessment of AIDS-Related Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Among Selected College and University Students

AIDS & Public Policy Journal 4, no. 2 (1989): 112-119
Bernard C. Kinnick et al.

Very few AIDS studies have focused on sexually active heterosexuals. In a survey conducted by the Psychology Department at California State University at Long Beach, 71 percent of the students thought that they knew enough about AIDS to avoid infection. Students at a large midwestern university had high levels of AIDS-related knowledge, although one-third of the respondents did not relate their risk of HIV infection to casual sex or indiscriminate sexual behavior. In a 1984 survey at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, only one-fourth of the respondents indicated that a concern about herpes or AIDS had influenced their sexual behavior. However, Neuwirth and Dunwoody, in their 1987 study, found that college students are changing their sexual behavior in response to the fear of AIDS. Their findings do not support the widely held belief that many college students ignore AIDS risks. To increase this growing body of knowledge, AIDS-related attitudes and behaviors were studied in a sample of college students in the Rocky Mountain region.
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