%0 Journal Article
%T The influence of documentary videos on the scientific diffusion of knowledge about Aids / A influ¨ºncia de v¨ªdeos document¨¢rios na divulga  o cient¨ªfica de conhecimento sobre a Aids
%A Brigido Vizeu Camargo
%A Andr¨¦a Barbar¨¢
%A Raquel Bohn Bertoldo
%J Psicologia: Reflex£¿o e Cr¨ªtica
%D 2008
%I Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
%X The study aimed to measure and to compare the impact on scientific knowledge of students visualizing different kinds of documentary videos about HIV/Aids ¨C one with a more scientific approach and another with a more popularized one. One hundred and forty one (141) high school students from the city of Florian¨®polis participated in the study. They were divided in 3 groups: control group (without visualization), group 1 (scientific video) and group 2 (popularized video). Before and after the showing the videos, the Scientific Knowledge Test about HIV/Aids was applied. The results showed an increment in the medium score of the mentioned test in group 1, no significant change in group 2 and a decrease in the control group. It was concluded that the scientific form of presentation resulted in an increase of knowledge concerning HIV/Aids.
%K Aids
%K informative video
%K scientific knowledge
%K adolescents
%U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-79722008000200003&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt