Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among High School Students in Erbil City/Iraq

Othman, Samir M.

doi:10.5539/gjhs.v7n1p16

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“…Studies found that primary sources of information for students about HIV/AIDS were the print and electronic media [14–23, 31], whereas textbooks, and teachers were the next important sources of information [20, 23]. In this current study however, no notable differences were found among students from both the control and intervention areas, in regards to exposure to TV/radio/newspaper.…”

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Impact of teachers training on HIV/AIDS education program among secondary school students in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional survey

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BackgroundIn 2007, the Government of Bangladesh incorporated a chapter on HIV/AIDS into the national curriculum for an HIV-prevention program for school students. For the efficient dissemination of knowledge, an intervention was designed to train the teachers and equip them to educate on the topic of HIV/AIDS. The present study intended to understand the impact of this intervention by assessing the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours related to HIV/AIDS, among the targeted students.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was conducted with the students at randomly selected schools from two adjacent districts. Considering exposure to intervention, one district was assigned for intervention and the other as a control. In total, 1,381 students, aged 13–18 years (or above) were interviewed, 675 from the control areas and 706 from the intervention areas. Univariate and bivariate analyses were performed on the collected data.ResultsA significantly higher proportion (p<0.001) of students in the intervention areas attended HIV/AIDS classes, demonstrated better knowledge and fewer misconceptions regarding the transmission and prevention of HIV. The same was derived regarding their attitude towards people living with HIV, as a higher proportion (p<0.001) responded positively, compared to the control groups of the study. Additionally, multinomial logistic regression analysis showed that students in intervention area were more likely to have good knowledge on HIV transmission (OR 2.71, 95% CI 1.74–4.22) and prevention (OR 2.15, 95% CI 1.41–3.26) compared to the students in the control areas.ConclusionsThe training programme needs to be scaled up, since it is likely to have an impact among students; we have witnessed that the interventions particularly helped increase HIV/AIDS knowledge among students and positively change the students’ attitudes towards HIV/AIDS.

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Impact of teachers training on HIV/AIDS education program among secondary school students in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional survey

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“…12,15 In contrast to the results of current study, lower knowledge levels. [16][17][18] Lower proportion (45%) of the students knew that living with the Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C patient was not a risk factor which was in contrast to result reported by authors. 14 Most of the respondents knew about treatment, post exposure prophylaxis and screening of blood transfusion which was in accordance.…”

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Perspectives of students in a medical school regarding Hepatitis B and C in North West India

Gupta

Singh

Langer

et al. 2017

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are among the major public health problems in the world and students in the medical schools as a group is highly vulnerable to these infections. The current study aimed to assess the perspectives (knowledge, attitude and practices) of these students about both Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C.Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in a medical school in northwest India using a self administered questionnaire. This study was carried out in the month of July 2017 using a convenience sample of Pre-final MBBS students.Results: The knowledge of the respondents was found to be good on most of the parameters except for living with Hepatitis B/C patient being a risk factor for disease and Hepatitis B being curable. On the same pattern, attitudes were also found to be positive on most of the parameters except willingness to undergo screening for the diseases. Practices of the respondents were also adequate except for use of gloves while examining a patient/collecting blood sample. An important positive practice observed was that 92.8% of the respondents were protected against Hepatitis B.Conclusions: The study has concluded that perspective of medical students towards Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C are reasonably good and areas of concern need to be taken care of. Both these diseases remain a challenge for health community in general and medical students in particular due to their being an occupational hazard, so the need for infection control training before they start clinical education is strongly recommended.

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“…In a similar study concerning medical students in Iraq in 2013 showed that 71.5% respondents used same needle where 28.5% did not. 19 It is found from this study that our people are more aware about needle sharing than the people of Iraq, so there is no similarity between these two studies regarding needle sharing.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practice on hepatitis-B infection among infected patients in a Homoeopathy Medical Center in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

Huq¹,

Hossain²,

Haque³

et al. 2016

SE Asia J. Pub. Health

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Viral hepatitis is the commonest liver disease in Bangladesh. About 10 million people in Bangladesh have been suffering from hepatitis B. Hepatitis B is a potentiality life threatening liver infection caused by HBV. It is a major global health problem and the most serious type of viral hepatitis. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice on Hepatitis B Virus infection among the selected patients in Essence Homoeopathy Medical Center, Dhaka. A descriptive type of cross sectional study was carried out among 150 samples by using non-randomized purposive sampling technique and by the help of pretested modified questionnaire. Statistical association was calculated by chi-square test and all the Hepatitis B related data were analyzed by the help of SPSS (version 16). The study showed that 73.3% of the respondents age ranged from 15-35 years with mean age (32.44±10.54) and of them 96.7% was found to be Muslims. Among injectable drug users (IDUs) (19.3%), 27.6% was sharing same needle. Approximately 5% of the respondents had a history of taking unscreened blood among 28% of the respondents who experienced blood transfusion. Another concerning issue was that 77% of the respondents practiced polygamy sex and among them only 38.8% used protecting device during sexual activity. Majority (70.7%) of the respondents did not take HBV vaccine. Significant statistical association was found between education and vaccination against HBV (p-0.000). To prevent this deadly disease mass awareness has to be created among the people of active age group through media education and policy implementation.South East Asia Journal of Public Health Vol.6(1) 2016: 27-31

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Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among High School Students in Erbil City/Iraq

Cited by 48 publications

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Impact of teachers training on HIV/AIDS education program among secondary school students in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional survey

Impact of teachers training on HIV/AIDS education program among secondary school students in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional survey

Perspectives of students in a medical school regarding Hepatitis B and C in North West India

Knowledge, attitude and practice on hepatitis-B infection among infected patients in a Homoeopathy Medical Center in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

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