HIV/AIDS and Health Care Workers: Contact with Patients and Attitudes Towards Them

Psychology and Health

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 367-378

  Knussen, Christina ^a   Niven, Catherine A ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Attitudes; Contact; Health care workers; HIV AIDS; In service education; Perceived risk of contagion

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RELATION; IN SERVICE TRAINING; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; UNITED KINGDOM;

EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SCOTLAND;

EID: 0033448055     PISSN: 08870446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08870449908407334     Document Type: Article

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