TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding African American youth HIV knowledge
T2 - Exploring the role of racial socialization and family communication about "hard to talk about topics"
AU - McKay, Mary M.
AU - Bannon, William M.
AU - Rodriguez, James
AU - Taber Chasse, Kelly
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding from the National Institutes of Mental Health (R01 MH 63662) is gratefully acknowledged. William Bannon is currently a pre-doctoral fellow at the Columbia University School of Social Work supported by a training grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health (5T32MH014623-24).
PY - 2007/5/22
Y1 - 2007/5/22
N2 - This article presents the results of a study examining correlates of urban African American youth HIV knowledge. The influence of family level factors (e.g., family communication, parental AIDS knowledge and myths regarding HIV transmission, along with family composition and family income) are examined. In addition, the current study explores the influence of racial socialization processes, specifically the influence of religious/spiritual coping, extended family caring, cultural pride reinforcement and racial awareness teaching (Stevenson, 1994; 1995; 1997) on youth HIV knowledge. Multivariate analyses revealed a significant association between youth HIV knowledge and being reared in a single parent home. Further, in every model, controlling for all types of racial socialization processes, family communication was significantly associated with youth HIV knowledge. Implications are drawn regarding the development of culturally and contextually specific HIV prevention programming for African American youth and their families.
AB - This article presents the results of a study examining correlates of urban African American youth HIV knowledge. The influence of family level factors (e.g., family communication, parental AIDS knowledge and myths regarding HIV transmission, along with family composition and family income) are examined. In addition, the current study explores the influence of racial socialization processes, specifically the influence of religious/spiritual coping, extended family caring, cultural pride reinforcement and racial awareness teaching (Stevenson, 1994; 1995; 1997) on youth HIV knowledge. Multivariate analyses revealed a significant association between youth HIV knowledge and being reared in a single parent home. Further, in every model, controlling for all types of racial socialization processes, family communication was significantly associated with youth HIV knowledge. Implications are drawn regarding the development of culturally and contextually specific HIV prevention programming for African American youth and their families.
KW - Culturally and contextually specific HIV prevention programs
KW - Influence of family level factors
KW - Influence of racial socialization processes
KW - Parental myths regarding HIV transmission
KW - Urban African American youth HIV knowledge
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U2 - 10.1300/J200v05n01_04
DO - 10.1300/J200v05n01_04
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34249684300
SN - 1533-2985
VL - 5
SP - 81
EP - 100
JO - Social Work in Mental Health
JF - Social Work in Mental Health
IS - 1-2
ER -