Nurses' and nursing students' perceptions of sexual risk behavior: A study in Finland, Estonia, and Lithuania

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 803-810

  Suominen, Tarja ^a   Koponen, Niina ^a   Mockiene, Vida ^b   Staniuliene, Vida ^c   Istomina, Natalja ^b   Aro, Ilme ^d   Kisper Hint, Ima Riina ^e   Raid, Ulla ^f   Vänskä, Maj Lis ^g   Välimäki, Maritta ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^c Klaipeda College   (Lithuania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^e Tallinn Health Care College   (Estonia)

^f WEST TALLINN CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Estonia)

^g HELSINKI METROPOLIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Finland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIDS PATIENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ESTONIA; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; LITHUANIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSING; NURSING STUDENT; PATIENT CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT ATTITUDE; TRAINING;

DATA COLLECTION; ESTONIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LITHUANIA; MALE; NURSES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STUDENTS, NURSING;

EID: 53849099634     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2008.0023     Document Type: Article

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