Sex workers are adults who receive money or goods for sexual services, either regularly or occasionally, including female, male, and transgendered sex workers. 3 Youths under 18 years who sell sex are sexually exploited and not included in the definition. Caring for sex workers seeking health services requires knowledge, flexibility, open mindedness, and, above all, a non-judgmental attitude. P...

The spread of HIV/AIDS is mostly through sexual intercourse and is largely influenced by behaviour and attitude. Data based on a sample of 1797 households are used to study changes in sexual behaviour and attitudes sickness and death in Ugandan communities, which were due to the realization that too many deaths were occurring in the community. Positive behaviour and attitudes include willingnes...

T he relationship of action to attitude change has been a central and recurrent theme ill my work ever since my doctoral dissertation (Kelman, 1953). I have written several theoretical papers on this issue over the years (Kelman, 1¢2a, 1974a, I974b, 1978), and during the 19605 several colleagues and I were engaged in an experimental pflJgram on the relationship of discrepant action and attitude...

Recent reviews suggest that religiosity is associated with the delay of adolescent coital debut (Rostosky, Wilcox, Wright, Randall, in press; Wilcox, Rostosky, Randall, Wright, 2001). Few studies, however, have examined this association using longitudinal data to test theoretically driven models. We analyzed data from 3,691 adolescents (ages 15-21), testing the hypothesis that adolescent religi...

Background & aim: Given the advancements in science, technology, and cultural globalization, Iranian families has changed in several aspects affecting individual’s perception of justice in division of household labor. Therefore, we sought to evaluate the correlation of gender role attitude and household labor division with perceived justice in couples. Methods: The present correlational study w...

background and aim:in recent years, fast-food consumption has increased significantly among societies which is a consequence of many factors for example lifestyle changes. undoubtedly knowledge and attitude of consumers are factors can influence on fast food consumption by individuals. so, goal of this research is study of knowledge and attitude of medical students about fast food consumption. ...

BACKGROUND Brief advice on smoking cessation from primary health care (PHC) physicians reduces smoking prevalence. However, few studies have investigated the provision of such advice by PHC physicians providing services to military communities. The aim of this study was to evaluate PHC physicians' attitudes toward and practice of delivering smoking cessation advice to smokers in a military comm...

In this paper we evaluate a model of social decision-making for virtual agents. The model computes the social attitude of a virtual agent given its social role during the interaction and its social relation toward the interactant. The resulting attitude influences the agent’s social goals and therefore determines the decisions made by the agent in terms of actions and communicative intentions t...