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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pita-Fernández, Salvador
• Rodríguez-Vazquez, Bélgica
• Pertega-Diaz, Sonia

Titel

Attitudes of Nursing and Auxiliary Hospital Staff Toward HIV Infection and AIDS in Spain

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care, 2004-05, Vol.15 (3), p.62-69

Ort / Verlag

United States: Elsevier Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of health personnel staff concerning HIV and AIDS. Participants included nurses (n = 315) and nurses’ aides (auxiliary staff) (n = 115) working from May to June 2002 in a Spanish hospital. A self-administered validated questionnaire about attitudes towards HIV and AIDS was used. The response was 74.9% (N = 430). The mean for the attitudes questionnaire was 79.7 (SD = 10.9), with a median of 80. The nurses had more positive attitudes than the auxiliary workers (80.9 vs. 76.5; t = 3.712; p<.001). Twenty percent (n = 63) of the nurses and 37.4% (n = 43) of the auxiliary workers (p<.001) reported a negative attitude. After a logistic regression analysis adjusting for age, sex, and occupations, the authors found that age and occupation were the variables with an independent effect on attitudes toward HIV.