       Document 0336
 DOCN  M9630336
 TI    Misconceptions about AIDS among children who can identify the major
       routes of HIV transmission.
 DT    9603
 AU    Wells EA; Hoppe MJ; Simpson EE; Gillmore MR; Morrison DM; Wilsdon A;
       University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, USA.
 SO    J Pediatr Psychol. 1995 Oct;20(5):671-86. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96084584
 AB    Described knowledge about HIV transmission among 1,048 third, fourth,
       fifth, and sixth graders from a multiethnic urban school district.
       Participants answered questions about behaviors leading to HIV
       transmission and about mechanisms of transmission. Children at all grade
       levels demonstrated a high level of recognition of the three primary
       routes of HIV transmission (through sex, through drug needle sharing,
       and in utero). However, children who knew about these routes also had
       many misconceptions about the mechanisms involved in acquiring HIV
       through these routes and about the ways HIV is not transmitted.
       Misconceptions decreased with grade and socioeconomic status (SES).
       Although there were no race/ethnicity differences in knowledge of actual
       routes and mechanisms of HIV transmission, there were more
       misconceptions about routes and mechanisms of HIV transmission among
       African American and Asian American children than among white children.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       *PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Adolescence  *Attitude to Health  Child
       Female  Health Education  Human  HIV Infections/PREVENTION &
       CONTROL/*PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male
       Risk Factors  Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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