Title: The impact of school AIDS prevention education on knowledge,attitudes and skills of secondary school students
Abstract: Objectives The aim of this project was to promote knowledge,positive attitudes and skills of students on HIV/AIDS prevention.The research results will provide important practical experience for school based AIDS prevention education in China. Methods About 8 thousand studrnts in grade 7 and grade 10 from 17 secondary schools in Beijing and Shenyang of China participated in this project.School health education teachers were trained for two days.The education time was about 2 to 4 hours.Pre test and post test surveys were conducted.Results The score (full 15) of HIV/AIDS knowledge of students increased significantly from 7.3 in pre test to 11.2 in post test(P0.01).Comparing with pre test,more students answered that they knew how to prevent HIV/AIDS (83.8% vs 47.9%),more students had talked HIV/AIDS with their parents (44.2% vs 31.1 %) and friends (59.2% vs 39.6 %),more students answered that they would not be uncomfortable to share a class with people who infected with HIV/AIDS (26.1% vs 7.4%).The percentage of studrnts who were opposed to male and female youth premarital sexual behavior increased from 45.3% and 50.6% at pre test to 54.9% and 61.2% at post test (P 0.01 ) respectively.Conclusions Compared to youth in some nations, young people in China have a fairly low level of knowledge,attitudes and skills necessary for HIV/AIDS prevention. This school based AIDS education program significantly improved students' knowledge,attitudes and skills,at least in the short term.
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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