The Attitudes Toward Women with HIV/AIDS Scale (ATWAS): Development and Validation

O’Hea, Erin L.; Sytsma, Sara E.; Copeland, Amy L.; Brantley, Phillip J.

doi:10.1521/aeap.13.2.120.19738

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“…The first consisted of 15 statements, some of which had been adapted from other questionnaires. 3,13 Students indicated their agreement with each item using a five-point Likert scale with answers ranging from 'strongly disagree' to 'strongly agree'.…”

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“…1 Current issues facing medical staff include protection from HIV infection following a needlestick injury, 2 women's choices on reproduction and breast feeding, 3 disclosure of patients' status to their sexual partners, 4 and treatment entitlements for overseas residents. 5 Medical student attitudes towards specialities such as HIV and psychiatry can be affected by exposure to affected individuals, [6][7][8] career intent in the area 9 and following an educational programme.…”

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Medical student attitudes towards HIV

Ivens

Sabin

2006

Int J STD AIDS

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The aim of the study was to determine medical student attitudes towards HIV-related issues, to examine if the following student factors can affect attitudes: gender, perception of HIV infectivity, exposure to an HIV+ individual, career intent and attending a clinical attachment. A self-administered questionnaire was given to students at the beginning and end of a clinical attachment. Of the 240 questionnaires handed out at the beginning of the attachment, 183 (76%) were completed. Students generally expressed positive attitudes towards people with HIV. Female students and individuals who had considered working in a related specialty or had met an HIV+ person expressed more patient-centred attitudes in some of their responses. Following the course, 72 questionnaires were returned. Responses to several of the attitudinal statements had changed significantly. Medical students generally have enlightened attitudes towards HIV-related issues, which may be affected by student factors and attending a clinical attachment.

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Medical student attitudes towards HIV

Ivens

Sabin

2006

Int J STD AIDS

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“…For example, their stimulus targets included atypical group members (e.g. heterosexual women with AIDS, rather than gay men with AIDS, see Green & Bobele, 1994;O'Hea, Systsma, Copeland, & Brantley, 2001) and stereotypic group members (e.g. a homeless man who is lazy, see Study 2).…”

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Perspective taking and prejudice reduction: the mediational role of empathy arousal and situational attributions

Vescio¹,

Sechrist²,

Paolucci³

2003

Euro J Social Psych

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This research was designed to examine whether perspective taking promotes improved intergroup attitudes regardless of the extent that stereotypic perceptions of outgroups are endorsed, as well as examining the mechanisms (attributional or empathy related) by which perspective taking motivates improved intergroup attitudes. Participants were presented with an interview segment where an African American interviewee discussed the difficulties experienced as a result of his membership in a negatively stereotyped group. Materials were presented in a 2 (perspective taking: other focused or objective focused) Â 2 (target stereotypicality: confirming or disconfirming) between participants design. Findings revealed that the manipulation of target stereotypicality influenced subsequent stereotype endorsement; those exposed to a stereotype confirming target later endorsed more stereotypic perceptions of African Americans than did those exposed to a stereotype disconfirming target. However, perspective taking promoted improved intergroup attitudes irrespective of stereotypicality; those encouraged to adopt the perspective of the target later reported more favourable intergroup attitudes than did those who remained detached and objective listeners. Whereas empathy partially mediated the relation between perspective taking and intergroup attitudes, situational attributions were a stronger and more reliable mediator.

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“…Recent statistics show that the incidence of new HIV infections worldwide tends to be on the decline but the stigmatization associated with the disease and those affected continues to be on the increase [1]. More worrisome is the high prevalence of stigmatization and eventual discrimination of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) among health professionals who have direct contact with patients' body fluids [2][3][4][5][6].…”

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confidence: 99%