TOPIC: Prevention & Education
OTHER KEYWORDS: Asian Americans, African Americans, Youth, Junior high school students
TITLE: Change in junior high school students' AIDS- related knowledge, misconceptions, attitudes, and HIV-preventive behaviors: effects of a school-based intervention
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Siegal D, DiClemente R, Durbin M, Krasnovsky F, Saliba P. Change in junior high school students' AIDS-related knowledge, misconceptions, attitudes, and HIV-preventive behaviors: effects of a school-based intervention. AIDS Educ and Prev. 1995; 7(6): 534-543.
SUMMARY
The report highlights a school-based AIDS-prevention program for junior high school students, which was developed and implemented in an inner-city in northern California that serves predominantly African-American and Asian students. The curriculum, taught by science teachers, consisted of twelve classroom sessions using both didactic and interactive exercises covering sex education, HIV biology, drug use, decision-making and refusal skills, and public response to AIDS and community resources. Results found that a school-based HIV-prevention curriculum, taught by trained classroom teachers, can modify middle adolescents' HIV-related knowledge about the casual transmission of HIV, and their attitudes toward persons with AIDS.