AIDS counselling for low-risk clients

Détails

ID Serval
serval:BIB_7D792E89A3AA
Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Collection
Publications
Titre
AIDS counselling for low-risk clients
Périodique
AIDS Care
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Gigerenzer G., Hoffrage U., Ebert A.
ISSN
0954-0121
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
1998
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
10
Numéro
2
Pages
197-211
Langue
anglais
Résumé
This study addresses the counselling of heterosexual men with low-risk behaviour who, voluntarily or involuntarily, take an HIV test. If such a man tests positive, the chance that he is infected can be as low as 50%. We study what information counsellors communicate to clients concerning the meaning of a positive test and whether they communicate this information in a way the client can understand. To get realistic data, one of us visited as a client 20 public health centres in Germany to rake 20 counselling sessions and HIV tests, A majority of the counsellors explained that false positives do not occur, and half of the counsellors told the client that if he tests positive, it is 100% certain that he is infected with the virus. Counsellors communicated numerical information in terms of probabilities rather than absolute frequencies, became confused, and were inconsistent. Based on experimental evidence, we propose a simple method that counsellors can learn to communicate risks in a more effective way.
Web of science
Création de la notice
24/02/2009 14:34
Dernière modification de la notice
20/08/2019 14:38
Données d'usage