1. [Design and application in Cuba of a construct to identify social dimensions associated with HIV/AIDS discrimination].
- Author
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González-Galbán H, Iglesias-Linares M, Mena-Martínez M, and Bojórquez-Chapela IR
- Subjects
- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Cuba, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Young Adult, Attitude to Health, HIV Infections, Social Discrimination, Surveys and Questionnaires
- Abstract
Objective: This paper presents the design and application in Cuba of a social construct to identify the social dimensions associated with discrimination attitudes towards people with positive diagnosis to HIV., Materials and Methods: A combination of qualitative and quantitative methodology was used for the measurement and validation of a construct, and also the K-mean procedure and factor analysis techniques. All these techniques were applied to "Survey on HIV prevention indicators" 2005, 2006 and 2009., Results: A tool for the identification of the most frequent discriminatory attitudes in a specific social context was validated. This instrument allows clustering the population into different typologies, by level of discrimination, and also, to distinguish some social dimensions of this phenomenon., Conclusions: The results allow distinguishing frequent discriminatory attitudes in any population, focusing the actions in the direction of gradually reducing them, and to evaluate the temporal behavior of this phenomenon.
- Published
- 2013