| ObjectiveTo investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practice related to AIDS in undergradutate sdudents of Shandong University with separate subjects and grades, and to evaluate the changes in the knowledge, attitude, and practice of AIDS after the health education via delivering propaganda handbooks, in order to lay foundation for further health education, carrying out focalized effective health education activities, and making suitable preventive programs that adapt to different kinds of students.MethodsBaseline survey: Random cluster sampling was carried out in Shandong University undergraduate students with subjects of art, medicine, science, and engineering. Each subject of students contains 400 samples, and the total is 1600. They were undertaken a questionnaire survey for studying the knowledge, attitude, practice and demand for health education related to AIDS in students. Health education and effect evaluation: Handbooks were handed out among the students of Shandong University with different subjects to perform a health education on the AIDS-related knowledge in July, 2006. Then part of the read and unread population were undertaken a questionnaire survey in November, 2006 and the students without reading the propaganda handbooks served as the control. The questionnaire contains the knowledge, attitude, practice and demand for health education related to AIDS.The data was input into computer via program Excel, and the statistic analysis was performed by SPSS and SAS system.ResultsBaseline survey: The sum of effective questionnaire is 1380. The passing score was set on 60, and the passing rate was 88.33%. Students of art, science, engineering, and medicine accomplished the average score of 69.50, 72.93, 72.97, and 75.34, respectively. The significant difference existed among different schools, different grades, different subjects, and different hometowns. But the cultural level of their parents had little effect on the students' score. The significant difference also existed in different schools, or different subjects on the score of transmission routes, preventive methods and basic conceptions, respectively. Many students lacked the positive attitude towards patients with AIDS, and discriminated them seriously. There is a significant difference on the attitude towards patients with AIDS among students of different subjects. Students had great demand for AIDS knowledge. As for the way to get the knowledge, the most selected ways were traditional media, such as magzines, newspapers, broadcasting, and television, while the way of having lectures was seldom selected.The average score of correlative knowledge about AIDS was (83.768±12.992) for 487 students of the reading group and (70.346±12.867) for 442 students of the comparison group (P<0.0001). Except the art department, the scores of the students from medicine, science, and engineering departments in the reading groups were all higher than those in the comparison groups (P<0.0001). In the reading group, the scores of the students in medicine, science and engineering departments were all higher than those of the students in the art department. The scores of the AIDS transmission routes, preventive measures and basic conceptions were (29.57±3.89), (20.90±4.91), and (33.30±6.27) respectively in the reading group, and (26.17±5.07), (17.44±4.78), and (26.74±6.24) respectively in the control group, the scores of the reading group were all higher than those of the control group. The scores of the students from different subjects and grades in the reading group were almost all higher than those in the comparison group (P<0.0001). The knowledge of students of art rose little after the intervention. The attitude of discrimination towards patients with AIDS decreased obviously after intervention, but still existed.ConclusionThere were significant differences on the knowledge of AIDS in Shandong University undergraduate students with different subjects, schools, grades, and hometowns. The health education for students of art should be reinforced. The rate of knowing transmission routes was obviously higher than those of knowing preventive measures and basic conceptions, which indicated the latter two should be paid more attention to. Discrimination to patients with AIDS existed in students, and the education on the care for patients should be enhanced. Besides the traditional media of magzines, newspapers, broadcasting, and televison, the education via professional lecture should be enhanced.After intervention, students' knowledge on AIDS increased dramatically, except those of art, which indicated it is an effective means to spread AIDS knowledge by issuing propaganda handbooks in universities. There was little increase in the knowledge of art students, which indicated the health education should be reinforced for these students. Discrimination to patients with AIDS decreased dramatically after the intervention, but with limited effect, which indicated that the eradication of discrimination needs the co-work of both the society and the university.
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