Concepts of AIDS in Germany: Stability and Change

Attitude to the social consequences of AIDS. Topics: 1.

As oral survey: general assessment of the dangers and temptations for young people in large cities; assessment of the danger of AIDS infection in large cities; expected jeopardy from crime in Germany to the extent of American cities; probability of personally isolating oneself in future due to AIDS; assessment of the degree of infection of selected illnesses; attitude to handicapped and sick persons; importance and consciousness of the dangers from AIDS; assumed effectiveness of possibilities of protection against AIDS; perceived threat to personal circle of friends and family from selected illnesses; perceived threat from technical developments such as nuclear energy, gene technology as well as from the ozone hole and environmental pollution; attitude to AIDS and the AIDS-infected as well as attributing blame to the primary risk groups; satisfaction with the German public health system; earning money or helping as primary motive among those active in the public health system; risk of HIV infection in the hospital; self-assessment of the certainty with which one would recognize someone infected with HIV; trust in the public health system and especially in blood preparations and blood transfusions after the so-called blood scandal in which AIDS-infected blood preparations came into use; influence of AIDS on daily behavior with people as well as feeling of safety; dealing with the AIDS-infected or isolation; state of knowledge about possibilities of infection with AIDS; active or casual gathering of information on AIDS; tolerance or isolation of the AIDS-infected (scale); compulsory measures or education as promising measures against AIDS; attitude to selected measures to combat AIDS (scale); willingness to help regarding AIDS-infected people; preference for protection of privacy of AIDS patients or protection of the healthy at the cost of those infected with AIDS; trust in statements of science regarding the familiar paths of infection of AIDS; general assessment of the AIDS problem for the respondent; thoughts of AIDS infection with intimate contacts with random acquaintances; use of condom; attitude to use of condom with future relations with unknown partners; not using a condom only after an AIDS test. 2.