Safe-Sex Knowledge, Sexual Behavior, and Drug Use A thesis

Table 21. Where Respondents learned about HIV/AIDS by age group
Age
under 25
Age 25-40
(n=65)
Age over 40
(n=54)
(n=80)
School .64 (.48) .38 (.39) .15 (.35)
Doctors .29 (.46) .48 (.50) .44 (.50)
Church .08 (.27) .05 (.21) .02 (.14)
Friends .36 (.48) .29 (.43) .28 (.45)
Pamphlets/ flyers .28 (.49) .37 (.49) .31 (.47)
Billboards .04 (.19) .12 (.33) .06 (.23)
Boy or girl .16 (.37) .11 (.31) .06 (.23)
friends
Role Models .09 (.28) .06 (.24) .06 (.23)
/Mentors
Websites .15 (.36) .14 (.35) .13 (.34)
Television .21 (.41) .32 (.47) .28 (.45)
Radio .01 (.11) .15 (.36) .06 (.23)
Newspaper/magaz .05 (.24) .22 (.41) .31 (.47)
ine
Parent/adult .09 (.28) .05 (.21) .04 (.19)
relative
Sister/brother/teen .03 (.16) .03 (.17) 0.0 (0.0)
relative
Educational .34 (.48) .28 (.45) .20 (.41)
program
Sex partner-not .06 (.24) .02 (.12) .02 (.14)
boy or girl friend
Community/social
group
.30 (.46) .28 (.45) .20 (.41)
Table 22 presents information on where respondents would like to find more
information regarding HIV/AIDS by age group. The oldest group is least interested in
learning from bill boards, church, and family, and most interested in learning from
educational programs, schools and doctors. The youngest group is most interested in
learning from educational programs and television, school and community social groups.
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