Nurses’ Attitudes About HIV/AIDS Scale—Version 2 (NAAS)

Homosexual men should be given social equality.

Male homosexuality is obscene and vulgar.

The homosexual civil rights movement is positive for society.

The love between two males is the same as heterosexual love.

Homosexual men are a viable part of our society.

I would be comfortable knowing that my clergy was a homosexual man.

I feel disgusted when I consider the state of sinfulness of male homosexuality.

I feel comfortable when I think that male homosexuality is a natural human occurrence.

I feel confident that homosexual men are just as emotionally healthy as heterosexual men.

I would feel comfortable if I learned that my son’s teacher was a homosexual man.

Male homosexuality should be considered immoral.

I feel revolted when I think of two men engaged in private sexual behaviors with each other.

Women with HIV ought to have equal access to health care services.

I feel disgusted when I think of an HIV-infected woman.

A woman with HIV deserves what she gets.

I would feel comfortable giving nursing care to an HIV positive woman.

The government should provide free syringes to IV drug abusers.

IV drug abusers are victims of society.

I feel disgusted when I consider the immorality of IV drug abuse.

IV drug abusers ought to be locked up.

People who contract HIV through IV drug abuse should not be entitled to free medical care.

People who shoot drugs cannot help themselves.

I feel upset around IV drug abusers.

IV drug abusers are mistreated in our society.

I would feel comfortable giving nursing care to an IV drug abuser.

I feel worried about the possibility of acquiring AIDS from patients.

I am bothered that I might not be able to prevent myself from contracting AIDS.

It is comforting to know that there isn’t much difference in caring for AIDS patients than caring for other terminally ill persons.

I have enough information to protect myself against AIDS in my workplace.

I worry about possible casual contact with a person with AIDS.

I am fearful of caring for persons with AIDS because there is no cure.

Nurses need to know the HIV antibody status of patients they are caring for.

I am not bothered about possibly caring for an infant who was born HIV positive.

Nurses who are HIV positive should be prevented from participating in direct patient care.

Persons with AIDS are not dangerous to other people with whom they come in casual contact.

I think the homosexual community has brought the problem of AIDS upon itself.

I feel angry about possibly caring for a person with AIDS who contracted the disease through high-risk sexual behaviors.

There is too much money spent on AIDS research.

Persons with AIDS should be quarantined.

Pregnant nurses should be excused from caring for persons with AIDS.

Civil rights laws should be enacted to protect people with AIDS from job and housing discrimination.

Activities that spread AIDS, such as some forms of sexual behaviors, should be outlawed.

It distresses me to think that so many nursing procedures have to be changed or modified as a result of AIDS.

Nurses should be allowed to refuse to care for a person with AIDS.

Public school officials should not be required to accept an AIDS child into classes.