Professionalisation and social attitudes: a protocol for measuring changes in HIV/AIDS-related stigma among healthcare students.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

HIV/AIDS-related stigma affects the access and utilisation of health services. Although HIV/AIDS-related stigma in the health services has been studied, little work has attended to the relationship between professional development and stigmatising attitudes. Hence, in this study, we will extend earlier research by examining the relationship between the stage of professional development and the kinds of stigmatising attitudes held about people living with HIV/AIDS.

Methods and analysis

A serial cross-sectional design will be combined with a two-point in time longitudinal design to measure the levels of stigma among healthcare students from each year of undergraduate and graduate courses in Malaysia and Australia. In the absence of suitable measures, we will carry

SUBMITTER: Ahmadi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3669716 | biostudies-literature | 2013 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature