Objectif HIV/AIDS is spreading more rapidly in Eastern Europe than in any other part of the world (UN AIDS, 1999). Building on previous pilot work in this region, this project aims to determine the levels of knowledge and shared social representations of HIV/AIDS amongst 1500 adolescents in Russia, the Ukraine and Georgia and the relationship between beliefs, values and actual sexual behaviour in this sample. This work is complemented by an analysis of the youth magazine and newspaper media in these countries, and an experimental analysis of the impact of a series of focus groups on adolescents' social representations of HIV and their sexual behaviour. The research team comprises of seven groups of researchers drawn from psychology, sociology, social work and medicine.Following an extensive period of consultation and participant recruitment, the research will take place in three major stages constructed to reflect the different methodological and theoretical specialisations of the project team. Following extensive pilot work, 500 adolescent respondents in each country will complete structured interviews designed to assess values and beliefs, knowledge of HIV-related risks, social representations of HIV/AIDS and actual sexual behaviour. Respondents will also participate in brief interviews investigating beliefs about the origin and spread of HIV/AIDS and the nature of high-risk groups. In stage two of the work the media most frequently read by our respondents will be systematically analysed using coding frames designed to test hypotheses arising from the earlier stage of work. This media material will also serve as stimulus materials in a final stage of research, which will track the discussion of four disparate focus groups of adolescents in each country over a six-month period. Qualitative analyses of group processes will be conducted alongside quantitative analyses of changes in reported sexual behaviours in a quasi-experimental evaluation analysis of behavioural change and shifts in social representations of HIV/AIDS of the group participants.This work should provide an important insight into the socio-cultural factors underlying sexual behaviour and sexual risk-taking and provide important guidelines for the construction of appropriate and successful interventions amongst this high-risk population. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Thème(s) 7 - Economics, Social and Human Sciences OPEN - OPEN Call Appel à propositions Data not available Régime de financement Data not available Coordinateur Brunel University Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Department of Human Sciences UB8 3PH Uxbridge, London Royaume-Uni Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Participants (6) Trier par ordre alphabétique Trier par contribution de l’UE Tout développer Tout réduire Georgian Academy of Sciences Géorgie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Yashvili street 22 380007 Tbilisi Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Ghent University Belgique Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse H. Dunantlaan 2 9000 Gent Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée Research Centre for Social Policy Ukraine Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Tampere,18/19, 15 02105 Kiev Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée St. Petersburg State University Russie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Universitetskaya naberezhnaya 7/9 199034 St. Petersburg Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée University of Surrey Royaume-Uni Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse GU2 5XH Guildford Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée University of Tartu Estonie Contribution de l’UE Aucune donnée Adresse Tiigi St 78 50410 Tartu Voir sur la carte Coût total Aucune donnée
