Knowledge, Attitudes and Risk Perceptions towards Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Among Health Sciences Students in a Public University, Malaysia

Elkalmi, Ramadan Mohamed Mahmod; Al-Shami, Abdul Kareem; Alkoudmani, Ramez M.; Al-Syed, Tarek; Al-lela, Omer Qutaiba; Patel, Isha

doi:10.5530/jppcm.2015.1.6

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“…This finding on students' HIV/AIDS knowledge, is inconsistent with the findings of Maimaiti et al, (2010); Mbelle et al (2014) and Gemeda et al, (2017) where the majority of respondents had significantly higher knowledge scores in HIV/AIDS. However, the finding is consistent with that of ElKalmi et al (2015).…”

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confidence: 86%

“…This finding could be linked to the finding of Gemeda et al (2017) and Mbelle et al (2014) where the majority of the respondents were willing to be associated with or share a space with people living with HIV/AIDS. However, the finding contradicts that of ElKalmi et al (2015) and Maimaiti et al (2010) which revealed that respondents had negative attitude towards people living with HIV/AIDS. Nevertheless, there was an element of stigmatisation in respondents' attitude.…”

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confidence: 64%

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First Year University Students’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards HIV/AIDS

Arhin

Gyimah

2021

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The main purpose of the study was to investigate first year students’ knowledge, attitude, and practices towards HIV/AIDS. In achieving this objective, the descriptive research design was adopted. The study participants comprised 249 level 100 students. A questionnaire developed by Carey and Schroder (2002) was used to collect data on students’ HIV/AIDS knowledge. A researcher-designed instrument was used to collect data on students’ attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS and practices regarding HIV/AIDS. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used for the analyses. The findings of the study revealed that the respondents’ knowledge level on HIV/AIDS was low and their practices regarding the disease were also poor. However, the respondents had positive attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS. The study recommends HIV/AIDS education course should be incorporated into the university’s curriculum to help increase students’ knowledge on HIV/AIDS and also enhance their practices.

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First Year University Students’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards HIV/AIDS

Arhin

Gyimah

2021

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“…The source of this apparently global inadequacy in nursing competencies for dealing with HIV and AIDS patients can be traced back to an overall paucity of courses offered by institutions of higher learning that comprehensively cover sexually transmitted and other infectious diseases within the scope of their curricula (ElKalmi et al 2015). According to Frain (2017), a steady decline in HIV and AIDS education across multiple schools of nursing has been observed, with undergraduate nursing students being the group most affected by this.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The nursing students in these studies were moreover observed to entertain many misconceptions regarding how HIV is transmitted, including through the sharing of communal ablutions with an HIV-infected person, which it was thought could result in contracting the virus (Abolfotouh et al 2013; Mahat & Eller 2009). Another study demonstrated that some nursing students agree with the prognosis that HIV-positive individuals should be quarantined (ElKalmi et al 2015), while a further study established that nursing students may fail to correctly identify the correct HIV and AIDS medication when administering such treatments (Frain 2017).…”

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Bachelor of Nursing students’ HIV and AIDS knowledge in KwaZulu-Natal province: An evaluation study

Ngcobo

Mchunu

2019

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Background Currently, human immunodeficiency virus and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV and AIDS) education and training in nursing suffer from various inadequacies and lack any real formalisation in their governance. As a result, Bachelor of Nursing students find themselves challenged in providing effective HIV and AIDS healthcare management, largely because of the deficit in training identified. An HIV and AIDS education intervention programme was introduced at a selected KwaZulu-Natal university to assist in bridging the perceived knowledge gap. This article communicates programme evaluation findings. Objectives The aim of this article was to determine levels of HIV knowledge achieved following an HIV education intervention programme. Methods A pure, descriptive quantitative research design was employed, using total population sampling ( N = 133). A modified G3658-11 Collecting Evaluation Data: End-of-Session Questionnaire, developed by the University of Wisconsin–Extension, was administered for data collection. Results Females predominated in the study, and most participants were African with 1 to 3 years of education programme exposure. Perceived HIV knowledge increase was evident: pathophysiology ( n = 93, 70.2%); immunology ( n = 97, 72.9%); transmission ( n = 116, 87.5%); diagnosis ( n = 109, 81.8%); prevention strategies ( n = 118, 88.4%); staging and monitoring ( n = 106, 80%); pre- and post-test counselling ( n = 104, 78%). Conclusion Pre- and ongoing in-service HIV and AIDS training can improve perceived HIV knowledge levels for both nursing students and professionals. Mandatory HIV and AIDS healthcare management training is therefore recommended in planning for its effective impartation by nursing educators.

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“…The spread of infection can be reduce by early therapy of antiretroviral drug. HIV-1 can be detected by devices a simple enzyme immunoassay (EIA), western blot test, Polymerase chain reaction assays [7,8].…”

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A Study on Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness and Practice About HIV/AIDS among different age group of Karachi, Pakistan

Mehmood¹,

Zia²,

Aziz³

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The AIDS is one of the most complicated health problems of the 21st century and it threatens the world population. AIDS spread at an alarming rate. This was a descriptive study to determine the knowledge, awareness, and practice about HIV among different age groups. The study carried out in Karachi, Pakistan during the period of January 2016-april 2016, in which 82 peoples are participated; 65 peoples having age in between 18-30, people’s lies in 31-40 years, while only 4 peoples having age above 40. From which 91% peoples thought HIV is dangerous virus and 51% peoples having misconception that it cause AIDS on initial stage and does not have any effect on CD4+. Majority of peoples aware about transmission of AIDS through intercourse, and during pregnancy. But the study show the high level of misbelieve also in mode of transmission that HIV transmit through sweat, saliva etc. Majority of the peoples have knowledge that HIV-1 is the most common type found worldwide. Also large number of peoples have knowledge that HIV weak immune system by destroying CD4+ and require long exposure to progress AIDS. Less than 15% of peoples strongly agree that AIDS is common in women. This misconception reflex the lack of knowledge and awareness in the HIV transmission and gender relation. Also majority of peoples thought that lack of knowledge is major barrier in the proper cure of disease. So increasing knowledge by awareness programs; sexual prevention; by starting national testing resources and curing poverty will cured AIDS in Pakistan. Newly drugs are introduced which can stop the progression of AIDS.

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Knowledge, Attitudes and Risk Perceptions towards Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS) Among Health Sciences Students in a Public University, Malaysia

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First Year University Students’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards HIV/AIDS

First Year University Students’ Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Towards HIV/AIDS

Bachelor of Nursing students’ HIV and AIDS knowledge in KwaZulu-Natal province: An evaluation study

A Study on Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness and Practice About HIV/AIDS among different age group of Karachi, Pakistan

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