Investigation On AIDS-related Knowledge Of The Four Occupational Groups

The ratio and the number of Chinese AIDS are increasing year by year through the route of sexual transmission. Female sex workers go on commercial sex actions, whose are the high-risk groups of infection and the spread of AIDS. As the development of socio-economic, China has more and more floating population, the number and the range of floating population are the important stimulus factors, those promote the prevalent of AIDS. At present 0.12 billion rural labors work in the city ,all the people aged 15-39 account for 75% of the floating population. Most rural workers on construction sites are mobility, lower educated, very poor young adults, they stay away from the family and prone to unsafely sex behavior. Entertainment is an important place of health education, where has AIDS. The Owners supervise the employers in order to strength the awareness of self-protection, reduce the chance of infect AIDS. Condoms have become one of the important means in order to prevent AIDS, according to some AIDS prevention experience of home and abroad.ObjectiveLearning about AIDS-related knowledge and behavior of four profession such as female sex workers of entertainment, the owners of entertainment, the manager of construction enterprise, the rural workers on construction sites in Anqing city, and the promotion factors of condoms in the entertainment. Evaluation the effect of health education of AIDS-related knowledge about rural workers could provide evidence for AIDS health education and behavioral intervention.MethodsSelection four crowd such as contact person with AIDS(200), the mobility workers on construction sites(108), female sex workers in the dance hall and hair shop(200), the owners of the service sector(106) in Anqing city. Using self-designed questionnaire and baseline survey, evaluation the intervene results according to the baseline survey and intervention.ResultsThe most people of occupation groups on construction sites accounted for 95.4%, the number of the male boss accounted for 94.4%, the number of the man on the service industry accounted for 90.6%, the number of the youngest woman aged 30 years old and below accounted for 97%, the number of female sex workers and the rural workers below Junior school accounted for 91.1% and 88%. The number of unmarried women accounted for 79.5%, the number of the married rural workers accounted for 92.3%. Female sex workers learned more about the route of transmission of AIDS and learned less about the route of non-transmission such as normal life and mosquito bites, 70% of the survey were aware of the proper use of condoms to prevent AIDS, the number of use of condoms in the commercial sex behavior accounts for only 40.5%, the survey emerged the phenomenon of separation of the knowledge and behavior. The awareness of the route transmission of AIDS, blood, mother-to-child accounts for 81%, 88.4%, 74.5%, the awareness of use of condoms in order to prevent AIDS accounted for 85.6%, 76.0% of the surveys believed that the female sex workers was the most important factor to promote the use of condoms, 42.1 % surveys were willingness to promote the use of condoms in entertainment places. The managers of construction enterprise project had a lot of cultural knowledge. Therefore, the public had high level of awareness of AIDS, however, 70% of the public had low level of awareness such as "mosquito bites do not spread AIDS", "AIDS-infected people share the swimming pool". The rural workers on construction sites answered two questions such as "can AIDS be cured at present "and "will the injection spread AIDS" the two questions did not have statistical significance, other 9 questions had statistical significance, 47.2% of respondents obtain AIDS-related knowledge through "listen to other people' words", 45.7% of respondents obtained AIDS-related knowledge through "focused on health education".ConclusionsFemale sex workers is high-risk AIDS groups of very younger, less educated and self-protection awareness of the weak, they should be carried out the propaganda education and the behavior intervention. The owners of entertainment learn more about the route of transmission of AIDS, but the acceptance degree of condom promotion of the entertainment is low, providing practical publicity materials is an effective way to control AIDS. Investigation revealed the difference about AIDS-related knowledge among different occupations, ages and the level of education, requirement to formulate missionary work according to different groups in the future. Health education intervention enhances the degree of master the knowledge of AIDS prevention and control knowledge for migrant workers, and less time-consuming focus on education, many information, high degree of confidence carried out by profess and professional organizations. After all, it is an effective way of publicity.