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ERIC Number: ED411717
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1997
Pages: 26
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AIDS-Related Stigmas and Safe-Sex Practices of African-American College Students: A Pilot Study.
Chandler, Donald S., Jr.
This study examined the safe-sex practices of African-American colleges students in light of culturally-specific beliefs that stigmatize Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in the African-American community. A total of 21 self-selected, sexually-active African-American students (15 females and 6 males) aged 18-22 completed the AIDS Knowledge, Feelings, and Behavior Questionnaire. It was found that 80 percent of respondents strongly disagreed that AIDS was not a problem in the African-American community. Yet only 38 percent of respondents reported using condoms or latex protection with every sexual encounter. While the results revealed a low level of AIDS stigmatization and a relatively high level of safe-sex practices among African-American college students, they also indicated a modest negative relationship between AIDS stigmatization and safe-sex practices. An appendix contains 13 charts that detail the results. (Contains 14 references.) (MDM)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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