University students’ knowledge of AIDS

Petro-Nustas, Wasileh

doi:10.1016/s0020-7489(00)00022-5

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“…Moreover, students of science and humanities faculties preferred TV, more often than medical students as an information source. Senior students reported more often reported newspaper than junior students [6]. Brook supported this and found television (93%); and newspaper and periodicals (90%) as the principal source of knowledge on AIDS [10].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 69%

“…In a study a low self-assessed level of knowledge on AIDS is mentioned. Ninety-eight percent of university students were aware of AIDS, but 68% had very little knowledge on AIDS [6]. Further analysis showed, that the knowledge deficit problem was significantly associated with the faculty attended.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Questions concerning sexual risk behavior have been selected from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance, United States, 1997 Survey [8], and self-assessed knowledge on AIDS/HIV, source of information and need for AIDS course have been retrieved from Petro-Nustas' questionnaire [6]. Questions regarding general knowledge on HIV/AIDS have been adopted and selected from the knowledge, attitudes and belief instrument [9].…”

Section: Item Selection and Validationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result sexual information for young people about sexual relationship and marriage are still ineffective [5]. Since students are among the most vulnerable groups in the society and students are commonly experimental, the assessment of knowledge of students about AIDS is important in planning appropriate preventive measures [6].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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AIDS knowledge and educational needs of technical university students in Turkey

Ungan

Yaman

2003

Patient Education and Counseling

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AIDS is a main health problem of the recent century and is now considered a very important cause for mortality and morbidity among young people. The aim of this research is to determine the Turkish university students knowledge, sexual risk behavior, attitude towards AIDS and educational needs concerning AIDS. A cross-sectional exploratory design is utilized in this study. One thousand four hundred and twentyseven university new registrants from the Middle East Technical University participated and answered a 32-item self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire addressed sociodemographics, sexual risk behavior, self-assessed knowledge on HIV transmission and AIDS, attitudes towards AIDS infection and AIDS patient, source of information and need for AIDS course. The response rate was 84%. Two hundred and seventy-one (19%) participants had sexual intercourse. Eighty-one (30%) participants reported condom use during the last encounter. Seven hundred and twenty-four (51%) stated they knew ''very much'' about AIDS. Students of faculty of engineering (n ¼ 384, 69%), economic and administrative sciences (n ¼ 115, 55%), and architecture (n ¼ 42, 52%) declared they knew ''very much'' on AIDS and had a higher frequency as the students from the faculty of arts and sciences (n ¼ 119, 43%) and education (n ¼ 64, 40%). Television was reported as the major source of information about AIDS (n ¼ 871, 61%). Students in faculty of education had lower scores than others (P ¼ 0:01). Almost all students stated that there should be a course on AIDS in their curriculum. Educational and medical institutions are the minor information sources for students at universities. Therefore, schools have to integrate new courses on AIDS and sexual health in their curricula, physicians caring for these students have to take more time for health education. #

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 69%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Item Selection and Validationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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AIDS knowledge and educational needs of technical university students in Turkey

Ungan

Yaman

2003

Patient Education and Counseling

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“…Education at high schools is beneficial to the health of the adolescents in order to prevent them from acquiring STDs and HIV infection. Because, they are among the most vulnerable samples in the evaluation of knowledge of them regarding HIV/ AIDS is important in planning true preventive measures [3]. In the literature, there have been many STD/HIV prevention programs [4,5].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%