Fear of AIDS: Assessment and implications for promoting safer sex

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 135-147

  Bell, Robert A ^a,b   Molitor, Fred ^c   Flynn, Neil M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Fear; Health promotion; HIV; Infidelity; Safer sex

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEAR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0032977115     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025488007373     Document Type: Article

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