       Document 1006
 DOCN  M9621006
 TI    The perceived social context of AIDS: study of inner-city sexually
       transmitted disease clinic patients.
 DT    9602
 AU    Kalichman SC; Adair V; Somlai AM; Weir SS; Center for AIDS Intervention
       Research, Medical College of; Wisconsin, USA.
 SO    AIDS Educ Prev. 1995 Aug;7(4):298-307. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96026584
 AB    The present study investigated perceptions of AIDS as a social problem
       relative to 10 other problems in a sample of 194 inner-city sexually
       transmitted disease (STD) clinic patients. Within-subjects analyses
       showed that AIDS was viewed as a more serious problem than housing,
       alcoholism, and child care, while AIDS was less of a problem than
       employment, drug abuse, crime, discrimination, and teen pregnancy, and
       no different from transportation and health care. Factor analysis was
       used to identify the interrelationships among social problems as
       perceived by STD patients. For men, factor analysis showed that AIDS was
       most closely related to crime, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and
       discrimination, with these problems constituting the first factor and
       accounting for most of the variance in the analysis. Men also placed
       AIDS with alcoholism and child care on the third factor accounting for
       little variance. For women, however, AIDS clustered most closely with
       alcoholism and child care, accounting for a minimal amount of variance
       in the analysis. Results further showed that perceptions of social
       problems among women correlated with HIV-risk-related behaviors. The
       structural context of social problems, within which AIDS is embedded, is
       discussed with reference to HIV-AIDS-prevention interventions.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       *PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  Adult  Alcoholism/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/PSYCHOLOGY  *Attitude to Health  Child  Child Care  Female
       Gender Identity  Health Priorities  Human  Male  Pregnancy  Sexually
       Transmitted Diseases/PREVENTION & CONTROL/*PSYCHOLOGY/  TRANSMISSION
       Social Problems/*PSYCHOLOGY  Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.  *Urban
       Population  Wisconsin  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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