HIV Prevention for Substance Abusers

This proposal first delineates the basic nature of the study, discussing its general purposes, significance, and conceptual framework as well as delineating the basic research questions and hypotheses. The second chapter presents a review of pertinent research. Specifically, the review examines studies of the impact of prevention on the attitudes of HIV drug users, and the general effectiveness findings of HIV prevention programs that are similar to the program that is to be investigated in the proposed research.

The third and final chapter of the proposal lists and discusses all of the methods and procedures that will be used in both the collection and analysis of data. Among the topics covered are: the basic research approach and design, statistical hypotheses, the design variables, instrumentation, and the statistics selected for analyzing data. The basic research problem is also restated in a more methodological context.

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drug user population and the effects of prevention programs on attitudes. Prevention, Attitude Change and the HIV Drug Abuser In general, the existing research indicates that at least one contributor to HIV infection is incorrect or poor attitudes regarding safe and unsafe sexual practices (Igra, 1997). For example, many cases of HIV infection are contracted not because someone is an IV drug user but because he or she had unsafe sex with an IV drug user (Centers For Disease Control, 1998); such cases could well be due to either incorrect or poor attitudes regarding safe and unsafe sexual practices on the part of both partners. While there has not been a great deal of research on the attitudes of IV drug users and ways to change attitudes so as to prevent transmission of the HIV virus, there have been a few investigations of the effects on attitude of prevention programs. In one study, for example, Connors (1995) reported that injection drug users, as a disempowered group, resist hegemony through dissents. Part of this group's resistance through dissent is said to generalize to the medical community. Specifically, Connors (1995) states that injection drug abusers have attitudes of distrust toward the medical establishmen
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Approximate Word count = 9673
Approximate Pages = 39 (250 words per page)

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