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Taylor-Brown, Susan – Child Welfare, 1991
Examines family-centered care and prevention, two concepts central for the development of child welfare services for children infected with HIV. Explores implications of HIV infection for foster care of infected children. Reviews the training of foster care personnel and foster parents to provide competent services. (BC)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health
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Strauss, Ronald P.; And Others – American Journal of Public Health, 1992
Pre- and postcourse questionnaire assessments of a university course on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) taken by 429 college students demonstrate substantial cognitive and attitudinal changes over the period. University courses can be an efficient way to educate future community leaders and professionals about AIDS. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, College Students
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Tudiver, Fred; And Others – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1992
Single-session Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) risk reduction programs led by peer volunteers for 201 gay and bisexual men were slightly more effective than 4-session groups led by paid counselors for 88 subjects. Both were more effective than waiting-list control groups (n=212 subjects) in reducing the risk behavior. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adults, Behavior Change, Bisexuality
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Campbell, Carole A. – College Teaching, 1992
A sociology course on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and its societal context, taught at California State University, Long Beach, is described. The background, content, organization, administrative and emotional demands, teaching methods (including input from patients with AIDS), texts, and impact of the interdisciplinary course are…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Communicable Diseases
Coleman, Mick – Dimensions, 1991
Provides early childhood center educators with guidelines for meeting the health care and social-emotional needs of preschool children infected with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). (BB)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Child Health, Communicable Diseases, Day Care Centers
Hatchett, David – Crisis, 1990
More than 25 percent of those who have the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) virus are African American, and, in large urban areas, the disease is a leading cause of death, especially among black women. AIDS education is vital to supplement health care efforts in the black community. (SLD)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Black Community, Blacks, Disease Incidence
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Damond, Marietta E.; And Others – Journal of Black Psychology, 1993
Evaluates a culturally specific curriculum addressing African Americans for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) education delivered to 339 youths in high school and junior high school in Los Angeles (California). Students in ethnically homogenous classrooms increased knowledge and behavioral intent more than did those in ethnically…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Black Culture
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Kann, Laura; Kinchen, Steven A.; Williams, Barbara I.; Ross, James G.; Lowry, Richard; Hill, Carl V.; Grunbaum, Jo Anne; Blumson, Pamela S.; Collins, Janet L.; Kolbe, Lloyd J. – Journal of School Health, 1998
Summarizes results from the 1997 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System and trends from 1991 to 1997 in selected risk behaviors. Results indicate that many high school students still practice behaviors that place them at risk for serious health problems, with some behaviors more likely among particular subgroups. Some behaviors vary considerably…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Drug Use, Eating Habits
King, Alan – Education Canada, 1999
Reports findings from Canadian surveys on adolescent female health-risk behaviors such as smoking, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and sexual activity. Discusses whether the school system has a responsibility to provide related prevention programs and whether the school actually contributes to the development of these problems. Supportive school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Communicable Diseases, Drinking, Drug Use
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O'Hara, Peggy; Messick, Barbara J.; Parris, Don; Fichtner, Ronald R. – Peer Facilitator Quarterly, 1998
Describes a peer-led sexually transmitted disease (STD)/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) intervention for students in a dropout prevention program. Trained peer counselors/educators led schoolwide activities and classroom sessions. Teachers and students rated peer counselors' effectiveness. Pre- and postintervention surveys indicated an increase…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Comprehensive School Health Education, Condoms
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Kagimu, Magid; Marum, Elizabeth; Wabwire-Mangen, Fred; Nakyanjo, Neema; Walakira, Yusuf; Hogle, Janice – AIDS Education and Prevention, 1998
Describes an AIDS prevention project of the Islamic Medical Association of Uganda, discussing how it was influenced by information from a baseline survey and how it was implemented. A followup evaluation study that assessed the community-level impact indicated that the intense community education effort, which used religious leaders and lay…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Community Education
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Kelly, Jeffrey A. – Family Relations, 1995
Reviews human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) behavioral epidemiology pertinent to planning risk reduction interventions and HIV prevention outcome projects that have resulted in objective evidence of risk behavior change. Key prevention issues of which we still have limited knowledge are considered, and potential ways to incorporate improved HIV…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring
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Pollitt, Ernesto – Child Development, 1994
Maintains that research from developing countries may help in understanding effects of poverty on child development in the United States, citing three cases: (1) the link between anemia and decreased levels of mental and motor development; (2) the positive effects of supplemental nutrition programs on child development; and (3) effects of poor…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Anemia, At Risk Persons, Child Health
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Slonim-Nevo, Vered; And Others – Adolescence, 1996
Examines whether cognitive/behavioral interventions that produced immediate changes in AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, and intentions for coping with AIDS-risk situations among delinquents and abused adolescents can produce long-term benefits assessed at 9-12 months follow-up. One intervention model, discussion groups, produced a long-term…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Attitude Change
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Mitchell, Christina M.; Kaufman, Carol E.; Beals, Janette – Applied Developmental Science, 2005
Contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD) is one of the most serious public health issues for adolescents and young adults; rates of STDs among American Indian youth are among the highest of any racial or ethnic group in the United States. Although it is one of the key risk factors for spreading STDs, little is known about individual…
Descriptors: Females, American Indians, Public Health, Males
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