Identifier	Thesis 1620
Author	Landry, Lyne S
Title	Safe sex education and the seriously mentally ill : a curriculum approach / Lyne S. Landry
Publisher	Central Connecticut State University
Resource Type	Master's Thesis
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to improve safe-sex knowledge among seriously mentally ill clients living in a residential program. Many have recognized that education and prevention are the most important tools, and that increasing health knowledge is key to improving behaviors in response to personal risk. Specifically, researchers have found that chronic mentally ill adults living in urban areas are at an increased risk of HIV infection due to a lack of accurate health knowledge. The goal of the present study was to develop a curriculum, an organized educational effort that would help dispel myths, establish biological facts, provide an opportunity to talk about at-risk behaviors, and present ways to prevent high-risk behaviors. Participants were recruited from a residential facility located in urban New Haven. Fifty clients completed the study. In the first phase of the study participants filled out a 20-item questionnaire that was used as a pretest and as a needs assessment for the
Subject	Sex instruction for people with mental disabilities
Department	Department of Psychology
Advisor	Goldstein, Marc B.
Type	Text
Digital Format	application/pdf
Language	eng
Date of Publication	2000
OCLC number	48108523
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Safe sex education and the seriously mentally ill : a curriculum approach / Lyne S. Landry

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