Racial differences in rural adults' attitudes toward issues of adolescent sexuality.
This study, based on a random sample of adults in a rural North Carolina county, demonstrates racial differences in rural adults' attitudes relating to adolescent sexual issues. Blacks were 50% more likely than Whites to indicate that public schools should provide general health care services, including pregnancy testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, to teenagers; however, they were only half as likely as Whites to approve of sexual experimentation by adolescents. The local community's attitudes must be considered in the implementation of rural adolescent health programs, including acquired immunodeficiency syndrome education.
Horner
R D
RD
Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC.
Kolasa
K M
KM
Irons
T G
TG
Wilson
K
K
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology; D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult / Q000523:psychology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001290:Attitude / Q000208:ethnology*; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009657:North Carolina; D011247:Pregnancy; D012424:Rural Population; D012572:School Health Services; D012736:Sex Education; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*