Measuring medical and nursing students' attitudes toward AIDS.
Health Psychol
; 10(4): 289-95, 1991.
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ABSTRACT
Investigated attitudes toward AIDS patients among medical and nursing students. Two separate cohorts of students (total N = 550) were surveyed to examine and then validate with confirmatory factor analysis the latent factor structure of such attitudes. Results indicate that a three-factor structure representing fear of contagion, negative emotions, and professional resistance provides a good fit to the data (goodness-of-fit index [GFI] = .92, parsimonious GFI = .67). We offer the resulting 15-item AIDS Attitudes Scale (AAS) as a reliable and valid measure for assessing health care students' attitudes toward working with AIDS patients. Our results suggest the presence of multiple predictors of such attitudes.
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Assunto principal:
Estudantes de Medicina
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Estudantes de Enfermagem
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Atitude do Pessoal de Saúde
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida
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En
Ano de publicação:
1991
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