TABLE 1—
Responses to HIV and AIDS Risk Assessment Test (N = 134)
Answers, % of Participants | |||||
Situation | No Risk | Low Risk | Medium Risk | High Risk | Don’t Know |
Working every day | 65.7 | 16.4 | 7.5 | 9.7 | 0.7 |
Sharing a drinking glass | 61.2 | 13.4 | 7.5 | 17.2 | 0.7 |
Having vaginal sexual intercourse without a condom | 2.2 | 0.7 | 4.5 | 92.5 | 0 |
Having vaginal sexual intercourse with a properly used condom | 34.3 | 32.1 | 14.2 | 17.9 | 1.5 |
Kissing on the cheek | 69.4 | 13.4 | 7.5 | 9.7 | 0 |
Kissing intimately | 38.8 | 23.9 | 12.7 | 23.9 | 0.7 |
Receiving an (unscreened) transfusion | 3.7 | 1.5 | 2.2 | 92.5 | 0 |
Being bitten by a mosquito | 31.3 | 17.2 | 20.9 | 28.4 | 2.2 |
Being sneezed on | 47.8 | 19.4 | 20.1 | 10.4 | 2.2 |
Note. Participants were asked to rate each of the hypothetical situations between a person without HIV or AIDS and a person with HIV or AIDS as carrying no risk, low risk, medium risk, or high risk of contracting HIV for the person without HIV or AIDS. (Correct answers are in boldface type.)