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Attribution Of Stigma As A Function Of Disease And Mode Of Transmission, Alfred Maxdee Decker
Attribution Of Stigma As A Function Of Disease And Mode Of Transmission, Alfred Maxdee Decker
Graduate Theses
The knowledge and attitudes of Odessa College health care students (N=114) towards hypothetical patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B virus (HBV) were measured via questionnaires. Transmission variables for infection were: anal sex with another man, injecting drug use, or blood transfusion. An Attribution Theory model was used to explain differences in knowledge and attitudes. Results suggest that students tend correctly to identify HBV as being more infectious than HIV and also to recognize that as future health care workers they are much more likely to die from HBV than HIV infection. In spite of this knowledge, …