CHILDREN & HEALTH--CONCEPT, CONCERNS, & COMMUNICATION

这项研究的总体目标是确定儿童如何 设想与健康有关的问题，以及他们的概念如何随着 发展 儿童对健康相关问题的理解， 疾病、危险行为和性行为将通过直接 访谈和更间接的同伴教学模拟。 父母会 关于他们自己的知识和他们对自己的看法， 孩子的知识和态度。 亲子沟通关于 此外，与健康有关的感性信息亦会被观察到。 最后，从这些研究中获得的信息将用于 拟订一份调查表，对8 - 12岁大样本进行调查， 老孩子。

The overall goal of the proposed research is to determine how children conceive of health-related issues and how their conceptions change with development. Children's understanding of health-related issues such as illness, risk behaviors, and sexuality will be probed through direct interviews and a more indirect peer-teaching analog. Parents will be interviewed about their own knowledge and their perceptions of their child's knowledge and attitudes. Parent-child communication about affectively laden information related to health will also be observed. Finally, the information derived from these studies will be used to formulate a questionnaire to be administered to a large sample of 8-12 year old children.