Stigmatization of patients with AIDS: Understanding the interrelationships between Thai nurses' attitudes toward HIV/AIDS, drug use, and commercial sex

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 763-775

  Chan, Kit Yee ^a   Reidpath, Daniel D ^b  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INJECTION; INTERVIEW BIAS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSING STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; PROSTITUTION; STIGMA; THAILAND; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VIGNETTE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; NURSES; PROSTITUTION; STEREOTYPING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; THAILAND;

EID: 35348951599     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2007.0004     Document Type: Article

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