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Older women's knowledge of HIV is lacking, study finds.
2004 NOV 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Age is no defense against AIDS.
Women aged 50 and older are living longer and remain sexually active, yet many lack appropriate knowledge about HIV transmission and prevention, according to recent findings published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
The findings are based on a questionnaire that surveyed 514 women aged 50 and older in the general medical clinics at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
Of the nine questions assessing older women's knowledge of risk of HIV sexual transmission, the mean knowledge score was 3.7, with no respondent correctly answering all nine questions. This poor performance suggests that active measures must be taken to increase older women's knowledge about HIV.
Participants also identified all sources from which they received HIV information. Eighty-five percent of those surveyed indicated they received their information from television; another 54% said they learned about HIV from friends; and 51% identified newspapers as their information source. Only 38% said they ever received information about HIV from their healthcare providers.
Lisa Bernstein, MD, assistant professor of medicine in the Emory University School of Medicine's Division of General Medicine at Grady Hospital, served as principal investigator, and is one of the study's leading authors.
"The misconception is that older people don't have sex anymore, and that they really are not engaging in risky activity," Bernstein says. "As part of older women being at risk for HIV, much of it is based on how much they know about HIV. Unfortunately, this population has not been targeted with HIV prevention messages because they aren't considered to be at risk. Yet their risk is probably rooted partially in their low knowledge."
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