Knowledge and Attitudes about HIV/AIDS of a Sample of School Teachers in South Africa
- 1 December 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 87 (3_suppl) , 1065-1066
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2000.87.3f.1065
Abstract
A questionnaire was administered to 160 black school teachers randomly chosen from one rural region of the Northern Province of South Africa. Their ages ranged from 26 to 57 years. Scores indicated very poor general knowledge about transmission of HIV/AIDS and moderately high supportive attitudes about dealing with HIV inside and outside of the classroom. Pearson product-moment correlations of .3 and .6 suggested weak association of knowledge about transmission and general knowledge with a supportive attitude.Keywords
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