The Ineffable Disease: Exploring Young People's Discourses About HIV/AIDS in Alberta, Canada
The Ineffable Disease: Exploring Young People's Discourses About HIV/AIDS in Alberta, Canada
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DOI：
10.1177/1049732309335393
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发表时间：
2009-06-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Olson, Kaerin
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作者：
Graffigna, Guendalina;Olson, Kaerin
艾滋病毒/艾滋病在西方社会(特别是在北美)持续流行，那里的大多数人都知道这种疾病及其传播方式，这表明提供信息不足以改变不安全的行为。更复杂的心理社会过程，主要是尚未探索的，似乎是将有关疾病和感染的健康知识转化为安全做法的基础。在这篇文章中，我们探讨了艾伯塔省年轻人关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的论述，并讨论了如何利用这些信息来制定预防战略。我们对居住在加拿大艾伯塔省埃德蒙顿的18至25岁的年轻人进行了八个焦点小组，并使用心理社会话语分析对数据进行了分析。结果证实了青年之间的人际交流在确定艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防行为方面的作用，并表明了关于艾滋病毒/艾滋病的社会话语在调解预防运动对青年态度和信仰的影响方面的重要性。
The ongoing epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Western societies (in particular in North America), where most of the population knows about the disease and how it is transmitted, suggests that providing information is not enough to change unsafe conduct. More complex psychosocial processes, mainly still unexplored, seem to underlie the translation of health knowledge about the disease and the infection into safe practices. In this article we explore the discourse of young people in Alberta about HIV/AIDS and discuss ways in which this information might be used to shape preventive strategies. We conducted eight focus groups with young people 18 to 25 years of age living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and analyzed the data using psychosocial discourse analysis. The results confirm the role of young people's interpersonal exchanges in determining HIV/AIDS preventive conduct and show the importance of social discourses about HIV/AIDS in mediating the impact of preventive campaigns on young people's attitudes and beliefs.