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KMID : 0904520070210010025
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Health and Medical Sociology
2007 Volume.21 No. 1 p.25 ~ p.49
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HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Discriminatory Attitudes and Identifying Factors Which Impact the Discriminatory Attitudes towards Persons With HIV/AIDS among Adolescents in Seoul, Kores
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Sohn Ae-Ree
Moon Jeong-Seon
Park Ji-Eun
Chun Sung-Soo
Ko Seung-Duk
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Abstract
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The study is to describe HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitudes (discrimination towards HIV/AIDS and lives with HIV infected persons) and identify the variables which affect discriminatory attitudes towards person with HIV/AIDS (PWHAs) among adolescents in Seoul, Korea. The population of this study is junior and senior high students in Seoul, Korea. To select sample, we divided 4 districts (north, south, east and west) of Seoul. Two junior high schools and two senior high schools were selected randomly from each district. Three thousand and one hundred-one students (1704 males and 1397 males) from 16 schools participated in the survey. A self-administered questionnaire measuring general and transmission knowledge (5 and 8 true-false-don’t know items) and discriminatory attitudes PWHAs (5 and 3 items,5-point Likert-type scale) was utilized. The level of HIV/AIDS knowledge was low and the level of discriminatory attitudes was high. Results indicated that students held considerable misconceptions about HIV transmission by mosquito (64.9%), kissing (59.2%),cup sharing (57.5%),toilets (54.7%) and homosexuality (53.1%) as well as stigmatizing attitudes HIV-infected persons and lives with them. The knowledge of HIV transmission predicted best the discriminatory attitudes after controlling demographic-social variables. Therefore, it is important to design HIV prevention strategies that increase in the knowledge of HIV transmission for adolescents in Korea.
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KEYWORD
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Adolescents, HIV/AlDS, Knowledge, Discriminatory Attitudes
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