Doyle Y G, Conroy R M
Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, King's College Hospital, London.
Public Health. 1991 Mar;105(2):167-71. doi: 10.1016/s0033-3506(05)80292-6.
AIDS in the Republic of Ireland has so far mainly been associated with intravenous drug use. However, because of growing public pressure to mount an AIDS campaign aimed at potentially vulnerable sub-groups, we conducted a survey of knowledge and attitudes related to AIDS among 891 Irish schoolchildren in the senior years of secondary school. Although virtually none of the children had received any classroom education on AIDS and no national education programme had been undertaken at the time of the survey, levels of knowledge were high among the pupils studied, and compared favourably with levels found using the same questionnaire among San Franciscan pupils. Higher levels of knowledge were found among urban pupils and, although some sex differences in knowledge emerged, there was no consistent pattern in these. No school surveyed showed sufficient misinformation to warrant a systematic education programme.
爱尔兰共和国的艾滋病目前主要与静脉注射吸毒有关。然而，由于公众要求针对潜在易感染亚群体开展艾滋病防治运动的压力不断增加，我们对891名爱尔兰中学高年级学生进行了一项关于艾滋病知识和态度的调查。尽管实际上没有一个孩子接受过任何关于艾滋病的课堂教育，而且在调查时也没有开展全国性的教育项目，但在所研究的学生中，知识水平很高，与使用相同问卷在旧金山学生中发现的水平相比毫不逊色。城市学生的知识水平更高，虽然在知识方面出现了一些性别差异，但没有一致的模式。接受调查的学校中没有一所存在足以开展系统教育项目的错误信息。
