Investigation And Analysis About The Cognition Of HIV/AIDS Among College Students In LiaoNing

Objective: To know the students'knowledge, attitude and behavior condition about AIDS-related of some health school, and find out inadequate education of AIDS in time, then provide background material and theory for developing related education model and content of school and society.Methods: With an individually designed questionnaire, through a random cluster-sampling by class, an investigation was carried on the students of some health school about ordinary knowledge of AIDS, transmission route, symptom, prognosis and prevention, the attitude and personal behavior of HIV patients. The materials were collected by anonymous questionnaires, and SPSS 10.0 was used for statistical analysis.Results: During the investigation of HIV-related knowledge, attitude, behavior about the students of health school, they were obscure and even error toward ordinary knowledge of AIDS. Students knew well about three important routes of AIDS( sex, mother-baby and blood), but they knew little about other route, such as whether mosquito bite could transmit AIDS. It was not enough about symptom, prognosis and prevention of AIDS that 51.5% of the students knew there being no availability vaccine now, only 52.3% of students knew condom could prevent AIDS or venereal disease. Most of students hadn't realized the harm of AIDS and only 5.7% of them were worried about infecting HIV. What made people worried was the attitude of students for HIV patients , only 41.1% students would cure and nurse AIDS patients, and 63.1% students could care, help and communicate with patients. Survey showed that students could acquire AIDS-related knowledge from many ways , but which were different, and...