Summary information

Study title

AIDS in the Consciousness of the Population of the GDR 1989/1990

Creator

Institut für Soziologie und Sozialpolitik an der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR Berlin Zentralinstitut für Hygiene, Mikrobiologie und Epidemiologie der DDR, Berlin

Study number / PID

ZA6658, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.6658 (DOI)

Data access

Information not available

Series

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Abstract

Attitudes and extent to which informed about the immune disease AIDS, sexual partners, contraception methods and health consciousness. Topics: Most serious illnesses in the world, occupation with the topic AIDS; probability of infection through AIDS; personal acquaintance with an AIDS patient; extent of information about AIDS; information paths for protective measures; communication paths; condom use; views on condom use (scale); reasons for condom use; number of sexual partners in the last 12 months; risk of infection; venereal diseases; reasons against condom use; condom use in the last 12 months; firm partner; growing old with current partner; satisfaction with contacts with other people; frequency of meeting friends and acquaintances; unspecific authority (scale); conditions for having friends, to live with AIDS patients, to have an HIV test done, to obtain condoms, to find a partner, to inform oneself about AIDS and to live in society as an AIDS patient; change of personal conduct since AIDS; size of place of residence; fear of AIDS infection; AIDS test already conducted; willingness for a further test; conduct regarding AIDS-infected people; importance of health, contacts, sexuality, recognition, bearing responsibility, tolerance, willingness to accept risk, security; social norm regarding faithfulness, condom use, willingness for an AIDS test, healthful life-style, partnership; practicality of the AIDS test (scale); AIDS danger in certain parts of the population; attitude to relationship of health and illness, fate and personal possibilities to influence.

Keywords

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Methodology

Data collection period

07/1990 - 10/1990

Country

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

Stratified random sample

Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Written survey

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1990

Terms of data access

A - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching.

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