Study On HIV/AIDS Prevention Policies And Strategies Of Secondary School Students'Health Education In Wuhan

ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to understand the policies on HIV/AIDS knowledge health education and promotion as well as its implementation situation among secondary school students in Wuhan. Secondary school students'attitude, knowledge, and behaviors of HIV/AIDS were also need be understood at present. To explore school health education and promotion model fitting to every age step of adolescence.MethodsRandom stratified cluster sampling was used in this study. HIV/AIDS knowledge education was conducted in three middle schools and two high schools with a number of 1,500 students in Wuhan. After education there was a questionnaire survey for them. Questionnaire survey was also designed for teachers and parents. Personal interviews were used to interview education sector manager, principal, and school doctor. Focus group discussion was used among grade group managers, teachers and eight to ten students. Quantitative data were analyzed by percentage and constituent ratio.χ2 test and multi-factor logistic regression analysis were used to analyze qualitative data.ResultsMiddle school students'age range was from eleven to fourteen and high school students'age range was from fifteen to eighteen. Before education, about 95.00% students heard HIV/AIDS. About what caused the disease and whether it is infectious disease, the awareness rate was between 30.00-90.00%. Awareness rate about AIDS three ways of transmission of middle school students was between 70.00-90.00% while up to 90.00% for high school students in some point. As to AIDS transmission ways, about 30.00-40.00% students think that daily contraction can spread the virus. After education, awareness rate was higher than before education of HIV/AIDS basic knowledge, transmission ways, and non-transmission ways. Parts of questions can reach a rate higher than 95.00%(P<0.05). Multi-factor analysis results indicated that students'family economic level, grade as well as attitude to AIDS were the influence factors to HIV/AIDS knowledge.Qualitative interview results show that education sector had clearly provision of HIV/AIDS education lessons for high school but none for middle school. Schools we investigated had no education plan and lesson arrangement for HIV/AIDS. Teacher and students agreed to conduct HIV/AIDS health education at school.A number of 1158 parents were asked to participant a questionnaire survey and the results suggested that parents'HIV/AIDS awareness rate was higher than 80.00%, particularly, almost 90.00% parents agree to improve HIV/AIDS education at school. There were 331 teachers participated questionnaire survey and their HIV/AIDS awareness rate was higher than 90.00%. Moreover, about 88.52% teachers agree secondary school develop HIV/AIDS education.ConclusionsHIV/AIDS health education prevention was an effective way to improve secondary students'HIV/AIDS knowledge, attitude and behavior change. Teachers and parents are all agree to participate HIV/AIDS education at school. Schools should formulate teaching plan, train teachers, and implement teaching task according to actual situation and related policies from education sector to guarantee health education and health promotion. Education sectors should strength supporting strategies and supervision, meanwhile, explore education prevention model fit for local education situation.