Project

Children’s Health Awareness Project

Project Description

This five-year study developed knowledge of children’s views about AIDS and AIDS-related behavior, which will serve as the basis for school curricula. Investigators gathered information from third- through eighth-grade children about their knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes toward AIDS, other illness, drug use, and sexual behavior. The project explored the effects of ethnicity, sex, and socioeconomic context and the relative effects of children’s perception of risk versus social influences. The longitudinal design allowed investigators to track changes in participants’ views between childhood and adolescence.