High School Students Reproductive Health And Aids Prevention Health Education Intervention Study

This study was conducted at a secondary school in Taiyuan City, Shanxi province, China. The subject including of 447 students in grade 8 and grade 11 was sampled by stratified cluster sampling. The study aimed to set up a way to improve the lever of reproductive health and the ability of preventing AIDS by health education.The methods consisted of questionnaires and intervention. Data analyses were performed through Epi info 2000 and SAS software. The major results were as follows:1. The evaluation of requirements of reproductive health and AIDS preventionThe results of base-line study indicated that secondary school students were poor in knowledge of reproductive health and AIDS prevention; there were a few problems happened in their attitude and behavior which did harm their reproductive health and which were risk factors to AIDS.2. Reproductive health and AIDS prevention intervention experiment(1) The results demonstrated that the intervention methods of study were appropriated.Students were trained four times for eight weeks. Training methods included health education and consultations.(2) The results demonstrated that the intervention contents of study were suitable.The program consisted of four parts, which included of puberty and reproductive health, common problems in puberty and the measure to prevent those problems, the prevalence of AIDS and AIDS prevention education, the measure to prevent AIDS.(3) The effectiveness of the program was of significance.The mean score of reproductive health and AIDS prevention knowledge of intervention group had been significantly improved and some attitudes and behaviors had been ameliorated. After intervention, the total mean score of reproductive health of intervention group had been improved from 71.24±11.49 in pre-test to 88.16±13.52 in post-test; The total mean score of AIDS prevention of intervention group had been improved from 123.78 ± 27.53 to 160.40±25.84.3. Based on the research results, a way for health education of reproductive health and AIDS prevention in secondary school has been set up, which is as follow:Health education of reproductive health and AIDS prevention should be taught earlier in junior high school through health education course. The effectiveness of the health education combining reproductive health and AIDS prevention is of significance.