Simulated Case: "A Vaccine Against AIDS"

A Brazilian Experience

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https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-826

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AIDS, adolescence, scientific knowledge, prevention

Abstract

The development of prevention strategies and dissemination of concepts related to AIDS for interested young people, in addition to informing them scientifically, acts as a proposal for interacting with this knowledge, aiming at their participatory integration in society. This paper investigated the effect of a simulated case involving a scientific controversy about an AIDS vaccine on the scientific knowledge of Brazilian teenagers studying in high schools. One hundred students (coming from the 2nd grade of secondary education at a public school of the federal network of education of the city of Florianopolis) participated in this study. The Test of Scientific Knowledge about HIV/AIDS (TCCHA) was used before and after the activity to measure its effect on scientific knowledge. The data revealed that the process of sharing information about HIV/AIDS among students affected their knowledge in a significant way, since there has been a considerable increase in scientific knowledge between the first and second step of the test. Therefore, the simulated case proved to be an effective strategy for increasing knowledge on this subject for high school students.

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Author Biographies

Andréa Barbará, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Departamento de Psicologia.

Brigido Vizeu Camargo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Prof. Dr. do Programa de Pós-graduação.

Raquel Bohn Bertoldo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

Mestre em Psicologia Social pela Université Paris Descartes e Doutoranda em Psicologia Social e das Organizações pelo Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Portugal.

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2010-09-30

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Barbará, A., Camargo, B. V. ., & Bertoldo, R. B. . (2010). Simulated Case: "A Vaccine Against AIDS": A Brazilian Experience. Revista Iberoamericana De Ciencia, Tecnología Y Sociedad - CTS (Ibero-American Science, Technology and Society Journal), 5(15), 95–109. https://doi.org/10.52712/issn.1850-0013-826

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Vol. 5 No. 15 (2010)

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