Aids e prevenção: uma aplicação da Teoria da Ação Racional

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Mardônio Rique
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/11112
• topic: AlDS; Prevenção; Atitude; Crenças

Based on Theory of Reasoned Action, two preventives behaviors toward AIDS - Condom Use and Partners Reduction - were investigated. Two questionnaires were prepared, based on salients beliefs after interviews with a sample of 80 undergraduates (40 subjects for the condom use behavior end 40 subjects for the partner reduction behavior) for the two behaviors. Moreover, a new sample of 420 undergraduates (205 for the condom use behavior and 215 for the partners reduction behavior) was used for the validation of both questionnares. Multivariates regressions analysis were fitted for the two behaviors and the Teory of Reasoned Action was a model with satisfactory preditive power. The study contributed to the literature on adoption of preventives behaviors toward AIDS.