[Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours about AIDS in Portuguese adolescents in urban and non-urban environment].
The main objective of this investigation was to identify and compare preventive knowledge, attitudes and behaviors regarding AIDS between adolescents at the secondary school in urban and non-urban areas in Portugal. This is a descriptive study with a sample of 826 individuals (455 adolescents from urban environment and 371 from a non-urban environment). The instrument for data collection adopted was based on the Health Belief Model conceptual model. It was recognized that there is a relation between the environment insertion of the adolescents and the recognition of AIDS as a serious threat, and the knowledge about the risks of infection with AIDS and the attitudes towards AIDS.
de Almeida
Assunção Dores Laranjeira
AD
Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro, Doutoranda em Ciências da Saúde. Campus Universitário de Santiago, Portugal. aalmeida@esssua.ua.pt
da Silva
Carlos Fernandes
CF
da Cunha
Gabriel Saraiva
GS
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011174:Portugal; D014505:Urban Population