AIDS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS

一项使用实验性重复测量的研究， 混合设计评价艾滋病预防效果 为孩子和父母制定的计划。 了理由 选择五年级和六年级学生作为目标儿童， （一）为父母提供一个共同的 （B）教育父母 他们自己可以作为更有效的资源， 为子女提供信息和指导（明确地， 隐含地）。 主要的教育干预包括五个方面 专门设计的短模块：（a）节奏快， 有趣，以保持儿童的注意力，（B）是 在内容和形式上适合发展 （c）让儿童和家长都参与， (d)允许父母和孩子在不同的群体中见面， 以及一起，和（e）作为上述所有的结果，以 帮助参与者获得促进健康的信念、态度和 intentions. 助推器干预计划旨在 六个月后， 以测试增强剂的增量功效。 控制 组（随机分配）将用于评估 干预和助推方案的影响，并控制 进行反复的测试。 一个相当精细的数据分析 计划被描述。 辅助（非实验性）干预 程序描述了两组兄弟的目标 儿童（初中、三年级和四年级）。 后一个方案是 在不同的房间进行。 它们旨在使 参与者，但另外，他们预计将有 （a）为家庭提供更大的鼓励 从而提高初始响应率，（B） 可能会影响一些原因， 退出该计划，从而减少 （c）向年长和年幼的兄弟姐妹提供信息， 他们可以在以后的场合分享，（d）促进利益， 而不是讨论性、吸毒和艾滋病。 虽然这些 将衡量潜在的好处， 计划对兄弟姐妹参加的儿童的有效性， 没有参加该计划将被审查。

A research study using an experimental, repeated measures, mixed design to evaluate the effectiveness of an AIDS prevention program for children and their parents is described. A rationale is provided for selecting 5th and 6th graders as targets children and for including parents in the program: (a) to provide a shared experience across generations and (b) to educate parents themselves who can then act as more effective sources of information and guidance for their children (both explicitly and implicitly). The main educational interventional consists of five short modules specifically designed: (a) to be fast paced and interesting in order to maintain children's attention, (b) to be developmentally appropriate in content and modality of presentation, (c) to be participatory for both children and parents, (d) to allow for parents and children to meet in separate groups as well as together, and (e) as a consequence of all of the above, to help participants acquire health-prompting beliefs, attitudes and intentions. A booster intervention program is designed to be provided to half of the experimental group six months later in order to test the incremental efficacy of the booster. Control groups (with random assignment) will be used to evaluate the effects of the intervention and booster programs and to control for repeated testing measures. A fairly elaborate data analysis plan is described. An ancillary (non-experimental) intervention program is described for two groups of siblings of the target children (junior high, 3rd and 4th grades). The latter programs are conducted in separate rooms. They are intended to benefit the participants, but additionally they are expected to have the following benefits: (a) provide a greater incentive to the family to participants and thereby increase initial response rate, (b) possibly influence some of the reasons for which subject families drop out from the program and thereby reduce attrition over time, (c) provide information to older and younger siblings which they can share on later occasions, and (d) facilitate benefits will not be discussions on sex, drug use, and AIDS. Although these potential benefits will be measured, the differences in the program's effectiveness for children whose siblings attended or did not attend the program will be examined.