       Document 0374
 DOCN  M9460374
 TI    Racial differences in rural adults' attitudes toward issues of
       adolescent sexuality.
 DT    9404
 AU    Horner RD; Kolasa KM; Irons TG; Wilson K; Department of Medicine, Duke
       University Medical Center, Durham,; NC.
 SO    Am J Public Health. 1994 Mar;84(3):456-8. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/94175193
 AB    This study, based on a random sample of adults in a rural North Carolina
       county, demonstrates racial differences in rural adults' attitudes
       relating to adolescent sexual issues. Blacks were 50% more likely than
       Whites to indicate that public schools should provide general health
       care services, including pregnancy testing and treatment of sexually
       transmitted diseases, to teenagers; however, they were only half as
       likely as Whites to approve of sexual experimentation by adolescents.
       The local community's attitudes must be considered in the implementation
       of rural adolescent health programs, including acquired immunodeficiency
       syndrome education.
 DE    Abortion, Induced/PSYCHOLOGY  Acquired Immunodeficiency
       Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL  Adolescence  *Adolescent Behavior
       Adult/*PSYCHOLOGY  Attitude/*ETHNOLOGY  Caucasoid Race  Female  Human
       Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male  Negroid Race  North Carolina
       Pregnancy  *Rural Population  School Health Services  *Sex Behavior  Sex
       Education  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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