EFFECTS OF AN EDUCATION PROGRAM UPON THE AIDS KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF ASSOCIATE DEGREE NURSING STUDENTS IN ARKANSAS (AIDS EDUCATION, IMMUNE DEFICIENCY).
Contributors: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus)
Published: 1989
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Education, Health.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Health Sciences, Immunology.
Description: Final semester Associate Degree nursing students (N = 86) voluntarily participated in a study designed to determine if their knowledge and attitudes about patients with AIDS resulted in a change for those in the group submitted to educational programs. The instruments utilized in the study were an AIDS knowledge test from the Nursing Institute, the Index of Homophobia, and an Attitude Survey consisting of the Prejudicial Evaluation Scale and the Social Interaction Scale.

Results from an independent t-test and dependent t-test indicated that the nursing students in the experimental group were more knowledgeable than the nursing students in the control group on the posttest and delayed posttest about the disease AIDS following the structured educational AIDS program. Results also indicated that the nursing students in the experimental group were less homophobic than the nursing students in the control group on the posttest following the structured AIDS educational program.

A repeated measures analysis of variance revealed decreased prejudicial attitudes toward the AIDS patient and homosexual for the experimental group following the structured educational AIDS program. This was attributed to the fact that fewer individual items on the Prejudicial Evaluation Scale and Social Interactions Scale were significant for the experimental group.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: A, page: 0812.

Thesis (ED.D.)--UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, 1989.

School code: 0011.