Public perceptions regarding the AIDS epidemic: selected results from a national poll.
Public perceptions regarding the AIDS epidemic: selected results from a national poll.
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公众对艾滋病流行的看法：全国民意调查的选定结果。
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1986
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K. Soeken
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R. Bausell;S. Damrosch;P. Parks;K. Soeken
采用随机数字拨号程序对 1256 名 18 岁及以上成年人进行了电话采访。参与者被询问了他们对感染获得性免疫缺陷综合症（艾滋病）风险的看法、对流行病可控性的乐观与悲观态度、他们是否采取特殊措施来避免感染艾滋病，以及他们将如何优先考虑三种可能的行动方案。样本对五年内控制艾滋病的态度大致持乐观态度和悲观态度。 10% 的人认为自己至少有感染艾滋病的一定风险（此类“高危”人群在东部居民、大学毕业生以及 30-39 岁年龄段的居民中所占比例过高）。 41% 的人表示采取特殊措施来避免艾滋病，其中黑人、西班牙裔和 30 岁以下人群中报告采取此类预防措施的比例更高。在三种可能的行动方案中，个人预防行动以 51% 的受访者排名第一，无限制的政府支出寻找治疗方法或疫苗以及政府对某些同性恋行为的限制分别被约 20% 的受访者排名第一。结果还表明，对处于危险之中的看法会影响一些关于艾滋病的看法。
A telephone interview of 1256 adults age 18 and over was conducted using a random digit dialing procedure. Participants were queried about their perceptions of being at risk for contracting the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), optimism-pessimism about the controllability of the epidemic, whether they take special steps to avoid catching AIDS, and how they would prioritize three possible courses of action. The sample was about evenly divided between optimism and pessimism about controlling AIDS within five years; 10% perceived they were at least at some risk of contracting AIDS (with such "at risk" persons overrepresented among residents in the east, among college graduates, and within the 30-39 age bracket). Forty-one percent indicated taking special steps to avoid AIDS, with higher percentages of Blacks, Hispanics, and persons under age 30 reporting such precautions. Personal preventive action was ranked first among the three possible courses of action by 51%, unlimited governmental spending to find a cure or vaccine and governmental restrictions of certain homosexual behaviors were each ranked first by about 20% of the respondents. The results also indicated that perception of being at risk mediates some opinions about AIDS.