[Determinants and educational approaches to AIDS anxiety in adolescents].
On the basis of a questionnaire filled out by 480 adolescents determinants of fear of AIDS were evaluated with a model of linear structural equations. The main factors that appeared were knowledge about AIDS (those who know more report less fear), personal involvement (those who are confronted more with the problem of AIDS report more fear) and sexual experience (those who are sexually more experienced report less fear). The last finding is interpreted to the effect that mainly sexually inexperienced adolescents, who are usually also the younger ones, shift their sexual fears to the AIDS-complex.
Abteilung für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Universität Heidelberg.
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D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D000293:Adolescent; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D005239:Fear; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors
Einflussfaktoren und Erklärungsansätze zur AIDS-Angst bei Jugendlichen.