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Influence Of Gender And Locality On The Attitude Of Adolescents Towards Aids
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In the absence of a vaccine
or cure, the only existing means of controlling the AIDS epidemic is by
changing the high-risk behaviours that transmits the virus. In this
respect, AIDS is as much as psychological problem as a medical one.
Prevention programs are typically designed to
Educate people concerning the risks that attend certain behaviours, such as unprotected sex
Motivate people to change their behaviour to people living with the virus
Provide specific guidelines for changing the risky behaviours and teach the skills needed for changes and
Give support and encouragement or the desire changes (O’Leary 2001).
Even
when something as urgent as AIDS prevention is involve the research has
shown that the success of prevention programs depends on the extent to
which the individual social system supports the desires changes (Herd
& Linden Baum, 1992).
On promising approach to attitude change
which was inspired by Albert Banduras social cognitive theory. It
involves the use of modeling procedures to change attitude and
behaviour. In some of the poorest and most hopeless parts of the word
(Bandura, 2000). The strategy is to produce highly engaging
‘entertainment-education†radio dramas to increase awareness and
counter-act false beliefs. In Tanzania, for example, many people
enoneously believe that AIDS is transmitted by mosquitoes and that using
a condom while having sex could actually cause the disease. Health
psychologists who focus on AIDS often design programs to educate people
about AIDS and to help prevent AIDS. Attitudes are often unrelated to
behaviour, that is, people know that consequences of high risk behaviour
can be deadly, and they certainly have negative attitudes about
acquiring AIDS, but their behaviour may still be risky.
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The aims of this study are as follows:
To determine whether gender will significantly influence attitude of adolescents towards AIDS.
To examine whether locality will significantly determine attitude of adolescents towards AIDS.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
Not
withstanding all the efforts by both government and non-governmental
organization against AIDS, the problem of the pandemic is still at
increase. As a psychologist, I became worried on what could by the
reason; on to this, thought that the major reason for the continued
spread of the virus maybe attributed to the attitude of the public,
especially adolescent towards this virus. Adolescent were chosen as the
target population because they are not only the leader of tomorrow but
thy engage more on illicit sex than adult who are married. Therefore in
looking at the problem of attitude towards AIDS, the researcher decided
to use gender and locality as reference. Therefore following problems
were addressed in this study.
Will gender significantly determine
attitude of adolescents towards AIDS? Will locality significantly
determine attitude of adolescents towards AIDS?
OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TEMS
Attitude – Predisposition of a behaviour
Adolescents -Individuals between the ages of 12-20 years
Locality – Being urban or rural area
Gender – being male or female
AIDS – Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
HIV – Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
PLWHA – people living with HIV/AIDS.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]This study investigated Influence of Gender and Locality on the Attitude of Adolescent Towards ADIS. 100 were Adolescent randomly selected from urban and rural area for the study. The age range was between 15-19 years with a mean age of 17years. Attitude towards AIDS scale Comoluabi 1995 was used for data collection. 2´2 factorial design was used and a two way ANOVA was also adopted as a statistical test, findings showed no significant gender difference. Male and female share similar attitude ... Continue reading---
