Perceived self‐efficacy of students and its influence on attitudes and knowledge about HIV/AIDS in Ghana

Opoku, Maxwell Peprah; Agyei‐Okyere, Elvis; Nketsia, William; Torgbenu, Eric Lawer; Kumi, Emmanuel Opoku

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“…Specifically, in some populations such as Hispanic women [ 28 ] or young people from Nigeria [ 29 ] levels of condom use self-efficacy would be lower among older people. However, other studies among young people [ 30 , 31 ] have not found statistical differences according to age. Despite these dissimilarities, self-efficacy has demonstrated to be a decisive variable for safe sexual behavior of men and women, in different populations [ 13 – 14 , 16 , 32 – 33 ].…”

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Exploring Self-efficacy for Condom Use in Spanish People: A Trend Analyses by Gender from 2004 to 2020

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Self-efficacy seems to be one of the most important resources for the different stages underlying condom use and STI prevention. For this reason, this study evaluates trends in self-efficacy by gender, from 2004 to 2008, 2013 and 2020 in Spain. Throughout these years, 6,698 people ranging from 17 to 40 years old, participated filling the Brief scale of condom use self-efficacy. According to our findings, despite the slight improvement in the recent years, self-efficacy still maintains a risky profile for safe sex, especially among the youngest people. Moreover, most of the traditional gender differences continue over the years with women reporting lower scores for condom purchase and men for putting them. However, these differences are not relevant in other dimensions such as using condoms despite drug consumption where women reveal worse results over the years. Therefore, our findings reaffirm the need of intensifying gendered preventive efforts aimed at Spanish people and, particularly, among the youngest.

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Exploring Self-efficacy for Condom Use in Spanish People: A Trend Analyses by Gender from 2004 to 2020

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“…It turns out that perceived self-efficacy plays a key role not only in directly influencing actions and self-regulatory processes, but also (and especially) through its positive impact on cognitive, motivational, decision-making and affective determinants (e.g., Lunenburg, 2011;Opoku et al, 2022). It is therefore conceivable that, just as self-efficacy is known to have a positive impact in domains related to learning, work, well-being, and health (for a review, see Bandura, 1997Bandura, , 2001, then it may also have a positive impact on the attitudes and evaluations people have toward aging.…”

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How to Age More Positively? Analyzing Determinants that Shape Attitudes Towards Aging

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A considerable amount of research has illustrated that negative attitudes toward one’s own aging can directly hinder mental and physical well-being or lead to maladjustment in later stages of life (Swift et al. in Social Issues Policy Rev 11(1):195–231, https://doi.org/10.1111/sipr.12031, 2017). Research so far has focused on the analysis of individual factors related to attitudes toward aging, often related to personality traits. Our study proposes and tests a model of positive contact with aging (PCA). It analyses both individual and social antecedents of attitudes towards one’s own aging, hypothesizing that individual health self-efficacy directly affects attitudes towards one’s own aging and that the quality and quantity of contact with older adults indirectly impacts on attitudes towards one’s own aging through attitudes towards older adults. The model was tested in a wide sample of the Italian population (N = 753) with a varied age range. The PCA model tested showed excellent fit to the data, explaining a moderate amount of variance in attitudes toward one’s own aging (12%). This model promises to offer implications for active policies that can improve attitudes towards one’s own aging, promoting educational strategies to increase intergenerational exchanges and foster health-related self-efficacy.

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“…As such, there is need to raise awareness in communities regarding any new information to make sure that older people living with HIV are constantly supported and cared for effectively. Available literature suggests that there is low knowledge about caring for PLHIV in communities making it difficult to positively improve their health outcomes [ 22 ].This study therefore explored strategies to improve the care of adults 50 years and above living with HIV in Uganda .…”

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Strategies to improve the care of older adults 50 years and above living with HIV in Uganda

Mbalinda,

Lusota,

Muddu

et al. 2023

AIDS Res Ther

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Introduction With effective antiretroviral therapy (ART), many persons living with HIV (PLHIV) live to old age. Caring for aged PLHIV necessitates the engagement of caregivers and patients to establish agreed-upon goals of treatment. However, there is limited literature on friendly and centered models of care for elderly PLHIV. We explored strategies to improve care in HIV clinics among PLHIV aged 50 years and above in Uganda. Methods We conducted 40 in-depth interviews in two hospitals with elderly PLHIV aged 50 years and above who had lived with HIV for more than ten years. We explored strategies for improving care of elderly PLHIV at both health facility and community levels. The in-depth interviews were audio-recorded and transcribed verbatim. The thematic approach guided data analysis. Results The elderly PLHIV suggested the following strategies to improve their care: creating geriatric clinics; increasing screening tests for non-communicable diseases in the ART clinics; community and home-based ART delivery; workshops at health facilities to provide health education on aging effectively; creating community support groups; financial assistance for the elderly PLHIV and advances in science. Conclusions There is need to improve community HIV care especially for the elderly and social and economic support in the community. Involving the elderly PLHIV in developing strategies to improve their health goes a long way to improve the patients' quality of care. There is a need to incorporate the raised strategies in HIV care or older adults.

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Perceived self‐efficacy of students and its influence on attitudes and knowledge about HIV/AIDS in Ghana

Cited by 6 publications

References 46 publications

Exploring Self-efficacy for Condom Use in Spanish People: A Trend Analyses by Gender from 2004 to 2020

Exploring Self-efficacy for Condom Use in Spanish People: A Trend Analyses by Gender from 2004 to 2020

How to Age More Positively? Analyzing Determinants that Shape Attitudes Towards Aging

Strategies to improve the care of older adults 50 years and above living with HIV in Uganda

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