Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of health personnel staff concerning HIV and AIDS. Participants included nurses (n = 315) and nurses' aides (auxiliary staff) (n = 115) working from May to June 2002 in a Spanish hospital. A self-administered validated questionnaire about attitudes towards HIV and AIDS was used. The response was 74.9% (N = 430). The mean for the attitudes questionnaire was 79.7 (SD = 10.9), with a median of 80. The nurses had more positive attitudes than the auxiliary workers (80.9 vs. 76.5; t = 3.712; p<.001). Twenty percent (n = 63) of the nurses and 37.4% (n = 43) of the auxiliary workers (p<.001) reported a negative attitude. After a logistic regression analysis adjusting for age, sex, and occupations, the authors found that age and occupation were the variables with an independent effect on attitudes toward HIV.
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