Knowledge, Attitude And Behaviour Conditions And Intervention Evaluation Of Some Groups Among Inhabitants In Hefei

Objective To understand the status of knowledge.attitude and behavior(KAB) about AIDS among marketers in Hefei and medical students, to explore their influencing factors and provide the baseline information of AIDS intervention for community and university and instructional principles for intervention strategies, as well as the references for effectiveness evaluation.Methods 631 marketers and 1 465 medical students in Hefei were surveyed with the questionnaires which including the knowledge, attitude and behaviour questions about AIDS, major STDs experimental examinations were implemented in some of the marketers. Uni-factor analysis and multiple regression analysis were used to explore their influencing factors. An intervention experimental design was used to evaluate the impact of peer education among 223 medical students.Results Elementary knowledge of AIDS, some grpups such as analphabetics, elders, female, countrymen, the people with low income had poorer AIDS preventional knowledge than other groups. The attitude to people with HIV/AIDS among marketers was negative, most of them felt afraid of AIDS patients, while the attitude towards HIV/AIDS high risk behaviours was relatively positive, which was influenced by their gender and age. Premarital sex and sex outside family were occured relatively frequent among these marketers, while homosexuality and drug injection were occured relatively infrequent among them. More proportion of hairdressers had excessive sex partners. Most of marketers lacked protective abilities and consciousnesses on AIDS prevention, but a great number of marketers would like to accept AIDS/STDs education. The positive rate of chlamydia trachomatis was 4.31%, the positive rate of ureaplasma urealyticum was 65.54%. Medical students grasped some elementary knowledge of AIDS and knew major routes of AIDS transmission, but most of these students stilllacked professional knowledge of AIDS; 49.4% students opposed sexual behaviors before marriage; 6.97% students admitted their sexual intercourse behaviors; 89.8% students wanted to learn more about STD,AIDS; 96.7% students considered it be imperative to carry out health education program for AIDS prevention in universities. After the intervention, the average knowledge scores about AIDS in the experimental group was 35.02?.70, the average attitude scores of which was 0.896?.316. Conclusions Marketers are potential high risk population for HIV,AIDS, the AIDS community intervention for them should be attempted as soon as possible, we decided to choose broadcast or television medium, peer education, consultation in community as the major strategies for the following intervention project. As a measure of primary prevention for AIDS, it would be very important to provide health education on AIDS prevention systematically for college students, as well as sex education. The proposals would assist college students in improving their knowledge levels on AIDS and reducing their high risk sexual behaviors. The study indicates that peer education about AIDS is both feasible and effective among medical university students.