Parent-Teen Worry about the Teen Contracting AIDS

A secondary data analysis of the National Commission on Children: 1990 Survey of Parents and Children was conducted with a subsample of 457 parent-teen pairs who responded to the “worry about AIDS” question. The teen’s worry about contracting AIDS was associated with race, parent’s education, the am...

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Published in:Western journal of nursing research 1999-04, Vol.21 (2), p.168-181
Main Authors: Carroll, Ruth M., Shepard, Margaret P., Mahon, Margaret M., Deatrick, Janet A., Orsi, Allen J., Moriarty, Helene J., Feetham, Suzanne L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - epidemiology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - etiology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - transmission
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Attitude to Health
Children
commissions
Comparison
Data processing
Education
Fear
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Historical account
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Infection
Male
Middle Aged
Nursing
Nursing Methodology Research
Parents
Parents - psychology
Perception
Population
Psychology, Adolescent
Races
Researh
Risk Factors
Secondary analysis
Sex
Sexual Behavior - psychology
Sexually-transmitted diseases
Socioeconomic Factors
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States - epidemiology
Worry
Young people
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Summary:A secondary data analysis of the National Commission on Children: 1990 Survey of Parents and Children was conducted with a subsample of 457 parent-teen pairs who responded to the “worry about AIDS” question. The teen’s worry about contracting AIDS was associated with race, parent’s education, the amount of discipline from the parent for engaging in sex, the teen’s desire to talk to the parent about the problem of sex, the teen’s rating of the neighborhood as a safe place to grow up, whether the parent listened to the teen’s telephone interview, and the parent’s response to whether his or her teen had a history of sexually transmitted disease. Of the parent-teen pairs in the subsample, 46% (N = 210) agreed in their responses about worry. Agreement was more frequent among the parent-teen pairs when compared to randomly constructed surrogate pairs. Dyadic analysis supported a family system view of perceived susceptibility.
ISSN:0193-9459
1552-8456
DOI:10.1177/019394599902100205