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Nurses' anxieties about biohazards as a function of context and knowledge
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posted on 1994-05-01, 00:00 authored by E Ferguson, T Cox, W Farnsworth, K Irving, Michael LeiterFinal‐year nursing students (N= 96) described their anxieties about biohazards, not only in relation to the occupational context of a hospital ward, but also in relation to their general life context. These contexts were reported to vary in the extent to which they permitted control over exposure to the two particular biohazards chosen for study: human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). The data showed that nurses' anxiety about contracting HIV infection varied significantly across the two contexts, while anxiety about contracting HBV infection did not. In the general life context, anxiety about HIV was greater than anxiety about HBV for all subjects. This difference was significantly greater for those with incorrect knowledge about objective HIV seroconversion rates than for those with correct knowledge.
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Journal of applied social psychologyVolume
24Issue
10Pagination
926 - 940Publisher
John Wiley & SonsLocation
Hoboken, N.J.Publisher DOI
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0021-9029eISSN
1559-1816Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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