AIDS in the Public Consciousness in the Federal Republic 2001

Information and communicative behaviour as well as knowledge. Attitudes
and behaviour in connection with Aids. Attitude towards Aids education
and towards HIV-positive persons.

Topics: Satisfaction with one’s own state of health; greatest health
hazards for the German population; most dangerous illnesses in the
Federal Republic; Knowledge on AIDS; chances of recovery from AIDS;
assessment of the danger of infection with AIDS in select situations;
possibility of transmission before breakout of the illness; knowledge
on the possibilities of AIDS infection in different situations;
knowledge of the HIV-test; frequency, place and time of interviewee’s
HIV-tests; knowledge of the meaning of the test result HIV-positive;
physical signs of an HIV-infection; probabilities of meeting someone
carrying HIV; personal contact to sufferers of AIDS and HIV-positive
persons; attitude to those infected with HIV in one’s direct
environment; concern about an acquaintance contracting AIDS or HIV
infection; assessment of personal danger of infection through sexual
intercourse; sources of information used on AIDS; frequency of AIDS
discussion in one’s circle of friends; opinion leader regarding AIDS;
use of AIDS brochures from the health authorities; type and time of
last observation of AIDS education in the media or special informative
meetings; participation in AIDS informative meetings as well as
location and counsellor; AIDS-counselling at school as well as subjects
in which the topic is dealt with; participation in an AIDS education
seminar at school and number of hours; knowledge on AIDS acquired at
school about different methods of protection; the internet as a source
of information; knowledge of the poster campaign "Gib AIDS keine
Chance" and "Mach´s mit"; opinion of the effect of the poster campaign;
sufficiency or insufficiency of sexual references on the posters;
unpleasantness of the posters; opinion on the ongoing publicity
campaign with similar poster motives; knowledge of the “Mach’s mit”
radio-spots (publicity success control); knowledge of central AIDS
hotline; knowledge test in form of naming the telephone number for
these services; assessment of one’s own state of knowledge on AIDS;
continual interest in how to protect oneself from transmission of the
AIDS virus; interest in the situation of living of AIDS sufferers;
interest in medical research reports on AIDS; media usage, private and
professional use of the internet; trips to the cinema; condom use with
long-term as well as new partners; assessment of the difficulty in
convincing a new partner to use a condom; assessment of the
population’s attitude towards condom use at the beginning of a new
romantic relationship; assessment of the acceptance of a partner’s wish
to use condoms; expectation of a new intimate relationship in the next
few months and the intention of discussing AIDS with one’s new partner;
age of one’s first sexual intercourse; sexual activity and number of
different sexual partners in the last twelve months; personal
experience with condoms and their influence on one’s sexual
experiences; frequency of condom use; contraception or protection
against AIDS transmission as main reasons for condom use; sexual
intercourse with chance acquaintances in the last twelve months; condom
use with chance acquaintances (one-night-stands); consequences of one’s
subjective awareness of the danger of AIDS on one’s sexual behaviour;
personal willingness to care for HIV-positive persons; attitude toward
the isolation of AIDS sufferers; state of information on the protective
possibilities against AIDS; addressing AIDS and condoms as well as
their use with a new partner; knowledge of how to handle condoms;
judgement of condoms’ material safety; aversion to condom use; last
holiday trip; sexual contact on holiday and condom use; use of condoms
during one’s last sexual intercourse; knowledge of new methods of AIDS
treatment and evaluation of the effects of these new methods on one’s
own attitude and public awareness on AIDS (scale).

Demography: Age; sex; marital status; living with a partner; serious
relationship; sexual relationship with partner; duration of the
relationship until date of interview; estimated duration of the
relationship; point in time of last health and sexual education;
current and previous profession, job and position; job characteristics;
different specification of profession and job; highest qualification;
apprenticeship; size of household; number of adults in household;
self-assessment of religiousness; religious confession; monthly
household income after tax (classified).