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Bray, Lucy; Blake, Lucy; Protheroe, Jo; Nafria, Begonya; de Avila, Marla Andreia Garcia; Ångström-Brännström, Charlotte; Forsner, Maria; Campbell, Steve; Ford, Karen; Rullander, Anna-Clara; Robichaud, Fanny; Nolbris, Margaretha Jenholt; Saron, Holly; Kirton, Jennifer A.; Carter, Bernie – Health Education Journal, 2021
Objectives: To gain insight into children's health-related knowledge and understanding of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) and COVID-19, and measures adopted to mitigate transmission. Design: A child-centred qualitative creative element embedded in an online mixed-methods survey of children aged 7-12years. Setting:…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Knowledge Level
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Bisol, Claudia Alquati; Sperb, Tania Mara; Brewer, Toye H.; Kato, Sergio Kakuta; Shor-Posner, Gail – American Annals of the Deaf, 2008
HIV/AIDS knowledge and health-related attitudes and behaviors among deaf and hearing adolescents in southern Brazil are described. Forty-two deaf students attending a special nonresidential public school for the deaf and 50 hearing students attending a regular public school, ages 15-21 years, answered a computer-assisted questionnaire. (There was…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Public Schools, Student Attitudes, Health Behavior
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Geary, Cynthia Waszak; Burke, Holly M.; Johnson, Laura; Liku, Jennifer; Castelnau, Laure; Neupane, Shailes; Niang, Cheikh – Health Education & Behavior, 2008
To examine young people's reactions to and understanding of HIV prevention messages developed for MTV's global HIV prevention campaign Staying Alive, videotaped campaign materials were shown to focus group discussion (FGD) participants living in urban areas of Brazil, Kenya, Nepal, and Senegal. Responses related to "personal involvement"…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Prevention, Focus Groups, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Bianchi, Fernanda T.; Reisen, Carol A.; Zea, Maria Cecilia; Poppen, Paul J.; Echeverry, John J. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2006
Latino men who have sex with men are a group at high risk for HIV infection. Much of the research addressing attitudes and behaviors related to HIV among Latinos in the United States has overlooked differences based on nationality. Brazilian immigrants, in particular, are an understudied subgroup of Latinos. This study compared HIV-positive…
Descriptors: Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Comparative Analysis, Homosexuality, Males