[Attitudes of nursing staff in Western Málaga to HIV/AIDS infection].
OBJECTIVE
To identify how nursing staff at two care levels in the western area of Malaga view Human immunodeficiency Virus infection (HIV/AIDS), evaluating differences that might exist in function of age, sex, professional status, work seniority, contact with infected people, perceived risk, information received and general information about the disease.


METHODS
A cross-sectional study with an analytic component. Stratified randomised sampling for the two levels gave a total of 156 subjects.


METHODS
The primary and specialist health care levels in the western area of Malaga.


METHODS
Nursing staff at both care levels working for at least a year and belonging to the full-time staff.


METHODS
A self-administered questionnaire which gathered: personal and work characteristics, knowledge, attitudes, place where health care delivered, perceived risk, information received and contact with patients.


RESULTS
In the main, the study group was composed of nurses (71.3%) and women (68.6%) with average age of 32.7 and work seniority of 9.1 years.


CONCLUSIONS
Negative attitudes were found to run at 56% in Specialist Care and 32.3% in Primary, a result associated with these variables: work seniority, perceived risk, care level and information.
Molina Cabrillana
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Hospital Clinico Universitario Servicio de Medicina Preventiva (Málaga).
Fernández Nebreda
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R
Hernández Pérez-Lanzac
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C
Sánchez-Cantalejo
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E
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control; D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D008511:Medicine; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009740:Nursing Staff; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011897:Random Allocation; D013030:Spain; D013038:Specialization; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires