title: [Knowledge, attitudes and behaviours about AIDS in Portuguese adolescents in urban and non-urban environment].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Escola Superior de Saúde da Universidade de Aveiro, Doutoranda em Ciências da Saúde. Campus Universitário de Santiago, Portugal. aalmeida@esssua.ua.pt
authors.forename: Assunção Dores Laranjeira
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.forename: Carlos Fernandes
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Gabriel Saraiva
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: da Cunha
mesh_terms: 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