Publication: Influence of Religiosity on HIV Risk Behaviors among College Students
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2009
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Abstract
Emerging new research show that spirituality and religion can act as important preventive
and therapeutic resources for a wide number of diseases. There is also proof that there is
a positive relationship between religiosity and the practice of protective health behaviors
in previous literatures. This study aims to examine how religiosity influences AIDS
prevention by testing whether participants’ religiosity scores explain their risky decisions
associated with drug use, sex and condom use among a sample of college students in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Using the Muslim Religiosity and Personality Assessment
Inventory, it is hypothesized that participants with higher religiosity scores were more
likely to abstain from HIV risk behaviors. Implication of the findings has significance in
directing HIV/AIDS prevention policy.
Description
A paper submitted for oral presentation at the Seminar on December 2009 at Hard Rock
Café Hotel, Penang, Malaysia.
Keywords
religiosity, spirituality, HIV/AIDS