title: Preventing AIDS: knowledge, attitudes, and practices.
abstract: 1. Because health care providers are the key professionals in advising patients about prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS, the degree to which spread can be prevented is at least partially a function of preventive and education measures taken by health care professionals. 2. Nurses surveyed believe that they do not have the right to refuse treatment to patients infected with HIV. 3. Twenty percent of health care professionals indicated they did not have adequate information concerning HIV, with the largest group being nurse executives in long-term care facilities. 4. The survey indicated that more efficient and effective educational methods should be used to increase health care practitioners' knowledge about AIDS.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lewis
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Doyle
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roemer
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003219:Confidentiality; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D009718:Nurse Administrators; D012494:Sampling Studies