HIV PREVENTION IN A MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN'S SAMPLE

本订正提案介绍了计划实施的一套 理论驱动的干预措施，其目标是提供一个大的，多， 小学生及其家长的文化样本，有效 和有用的信念和信息的因素有关的艾滋病毒 感染和避免。 孩子们（和他们的父母）， 分类的种族和文化适应，将在一个3- 年纵向研究，特别注意在以后几年， 对最年长的学生进行研究，以确定以前的影响 对青少年早期危险性行为的指导干预。 所有学生将在课堂上接受艾滋病教育， 学年。 同时，三分之一的样本将参加 一个同伴健康教育计划，三分之一在计算机辅助 教育计划。学生对艾滋病态度的变化， 从治疗前到治疗后知识构成了一项主要研究 专心点MANOVA将是主要的分析方法， 研究设计的多因素性质。 对于父母，孩子， 父母和孩子结合，治疗类型的影响，文化适应， 他们的互动将被检查的态度，知识和 行为测量。 分析技术将得到补充， 方差分析、多元回归和判别函数 分析，以提供最敏感和信息量最大的数据处理。 在 除了学生的表现，家长的知识和态度， 监测并与非常大的未经处理的对照进行比较 sample.父母的行为与子女的行为表现之间的关系 也将进行调查，以帮助确定父母的影响， 他们的孩子的信仰。文化适应的调节作用 将研究所有关系的水平，以确定这一点的影响 父母对艾滋病的态度、知识和行为的变量 最终，他们的孩子。这项研究将持续三年。 年这项研究有望提供有关以下方面的重要信息： 提供可能影响艾滋病毒/艾滋病相关的教育干预措施， 儿童及其父母在各个层面的知识和行为 在美国主流社会中的文化适应。

This revised proposal describes the planned implementation of a set of theory-driven interventions whose goal is to provide a large, multi- cultural sample of elementary school children and their parents with valid and useful beliefs and information about the factors related to HIV infection and its avoidance. The children (and their parents), categorized on ethnicity and acculturation, will be investigated in a 3- year longitudinal study, with particular attention paid in later years of research to the oldest students to determine the impact of the prior instructional interventions on early adolescent at-risk sexual behavior. All students will receive in-class AIDS education over the course of the academic year. Concurrently, one-third of the sample will participate in a peer-health education program, and one third in a computer-assisted education program. Changes in students' AIDS-relevant attitudes and knowledge from pre- to post-treatment constitute one primary research focus. MANOVA will be the principal analytic method, given the multifactorial nature of the research design. For parents, children, and parents and children combined, effects of treatment type, acculturation, and their interaction will be examined for attitude, knowledge and behavior measures. The analytic technique will be supplemented by analysis of variance, multiple regression, and discriminant function analysis to provide the most sensitive and informative data treatment. In addition to students' performance, parental knowledge and attitudes will be monitored and compared with that of a very large untreated control sample. The relationship between parents' and their children's performance also will be investigated to help determine the effects of parental beliefs on those of their children. Moderating effects of acculturation level on all relationships will be studied to determine the impact of this variable on AIDS-related attitudes, knowledge, and actions for parents and, ultimately, their children. The study will be carried over three years. The research promises to provide important information regarding delivery of educational interventions that may influence HIV/AIDS-relevant knowledge and behavior of children, and their parents, at various levels of acculturation in mainstream American society.