       Document 0365
 DOCN  M9630365
 TI    Student opinion leaders and HIV/AIDS knowledge and risk behavior.
 DT    9603
 AU    Jaccard J; Levinson RA; Beamer LA; State University of New York, Albany,
       USA.
 SO    J Am Coll Health. 1995 Mar;43(5):216-23. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96072120
 AB    This research applied the construct of opinion leadership to the health
       area of AIDS. Approximately 290 college students completed a
       questionnaire that identified individuals whom peers tended to use as
       sources of information about AIDS. The results showed that, among men,
       the AIDS opinion leaders tended to have a larger number of sexual
       partners than their nonleader counterparts and that they were no more
       likely to practice safer sex or be more knowledgeable about safer sex.
       Female AIDS opinion leaders tended to engage in less sexual activity
       than their nonleader counterparts, but showed a greater reluctance to
       communicate with men about condom use. In addition, female AIDS opinion
       leaders were neither more knowledgeable about safer sex nor more likely
       to engage in safer sex than were their nonleader counterparts.
 DE    Adult  Condoms  Female  Human  HIV Infections/*PREVENTION & CONTROL
       *Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male  New England  Risk-Taking  *Sex
       Behavior  *Social Dominance  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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