dc.contributor.advisor | Malcolm, Charles | |
dc.contributor.author | Kenana, Motlatsi Queen | |
dc.contributor.other | Dept. of Psychology | |
dc.contributor.other | Faculty of Community and Health Sciences | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-11-18T09:41:20Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009/10/30 16:09 | |
dc.date.available | 2009/10/30 | |
dc.date.available | 2013-11-18T09:41:20Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2395 | |
dc.description | Magister Artium - MA | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This study aimed to explore the attitudes to HIV testing among a group of black, low socio-economic status pregnant women from Gugulethu, South Africa. The key research interest was to evaluate the attitudes and understandings of HIV/AIDS that underpin the decision to comply or not comply with prenatal HIV testing. Theories of health behaviour concur that the extent to which an individual will engage in a given health behaviour, such as HIV test compliance, will be a function of the extent to which a person believes she is personally susceptible to the particular illness and her evaluation of the severity of the consequences of contracting the disease. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.subject | Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus | en_US |
dc.subject | Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome | en_US |
dc.subject | HIV/AIDS test | en_US |
dc.subject | Pregnant women | en_US |
dc.subject | Qualitative | en_US |
dc.subject | Stigma | en_US |
dc.subject | Isolation | en_US |
dc.subject | Discrimination | en_US |
dc.subject | Social support | en_US |
dc.subject | Compliance | en_US |
dc.title | An evaluation of the attitudes and understanding of HIV/AIDS that underpins the decision to comply or not comply with prenatal HIV/AIDS testing | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.rights.holder | University of the Western Cape | en_US |
dc.description.country | South Africa | |