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AIDS-related knowledge, stigma and customary beliefs of South African construction workers

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Title
AIDS-related knowledge, stigma and customary beliefs of South African construction workers
Published in
AIDS Care, September 2016
DOI 10.1080/09540121.2016.1227764
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Rajen Govender, Paul Bowen, Peter Edwards, Keith Cattell

Abstract

Customary beliefs about the cause/s of AIDS are significantly related to whether or not individuals will undergo HIV testing. This study examined the cultural beliefs of construction workers in terms of their demographic and lifestyle behavioural characteristics, and their AIDS-related knowledge and stigma attitudes, to help inform improved work-based AIDS-education interventions by construction firms. A total of 512 workers drawn from 6 firms operating on 18 construction sites in the Western Cape province participated in the study. Thirty-seven per cent of participants either endorsed customary beliefs/explanations about the cause of AIDS, or were unsure. AIDS-related knowledge proved a significant differentiator of participants endorsing customary beliefs (aOR = 0.8, 95% CI, 0.6-1.0), or being unsure (aOR = 0.5, 95% CI, 0.4-0.6), compared to participants not endorsing such beliefs. Stigma (aOR = 1.3, 95% CI, 1.1-1.7) proved a significant differentiator of participants with more polarized beliefs, namely, those endorsing customary beliefs compared to those not endorsing such beliefs, but was not significant in differentiating these categories from that of being unsure. The challenges to testing behaviour from incorrect AIDS knowledge may be amplified by adherence to customary beliefs that discount scientific explanations about the cause of AIDS. Interventions are required to specifically address misinformation or incorrect knowledge about AIDS derived from traditional beliefs, and should explicitly target persons who either endorse such beliefs or are somewhat equivocal about them. The role of peer educators is highlighted. Traditional healers, given their credibility and status within many traditional cultures, may also have an important role to play in this regard.

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Unknown 51 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 20%
Researcher 6 12%
Student > Bachelor 6 12%
Student > Master 5 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 4%
Other 8 16%
Unknown 14 27%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 9 18%
Medicine and Dentistry 9 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 8 16%
Psychology 5 10%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 6%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 13 25%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 May 2017.
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#14,282,319
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#1,745
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#194,548
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#39
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