LeBlanc A J
Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024-1551.
J Health Soc Behav. 1993 Mar;34(1):23-36.
Supplemental AIDS data from the 1987 National Health Interview Survey indicate that adults in the U.S. know the most frequent modes of HIV transmission, but lack a more comprehensive understanding of HIV and AIDS. Elements from a diffusion model were isolated to create a path-analytic framework for examining the effects of population or recipient characteristics and information sources or communication channels on HIV-related knowledge with these data. This multivariate analysis suggests that persons of lower socioeconomic status, older adults, those from racial/ethnic minority groups, those living outside of metropolitan areas, men, and those citing mass media (television or newspapers) as their primary source of information about HIV and AIDS have slightly lower levels of HIV-related knowledge. Decomposition of the effects in the path analysis suggests that use of information sources or channels, as measured by survey data, accounts for little of the observed variation in HIV-related knowledge. The implications of these results for future research and HIV-related education are discussed.
1987年全国健康访谈调查的补充艾滋病数据表明，美国成年人了解艾滋病毒最常见的传播方式，但对艾滋病毒和艾滋病缺乏更全面的认识。从扩散模型中提取要素，以创建一个路径分析框架，用这些数据来检验人群或接受者特征以及信息来源或传播渠道对艾滋病相关知识的影响。这项多变量分析表明，社会经济地位较低的人群、老年人、来自种族/族裔少数群体的人、居住在大都市地区以外的人、男性，以及那些将大众媒体（电视或报纸）作为其艾滋病相关信息主要来源的人，其艾滋病相关知识水平略低。路径分析中的效应分解表明，根据调查数据衡量的信息来源或渠道的使用，在观察到的艾滋病相关知识差异中占比很小。讨论了这些结果对未来研究和艾滋病相关教育的启示。
