Research On The Influencing Factors And Mode Of AIDS Community Support In Rural Areas Of North Anhui

Objective To explore AIDS related knowledge, attitude and behaciors among the healthy inhabitants in North Anhui in order to provide policy recommendation of AIDS anti-discrimination and community support.Methods Self-designed questionnaire was used to investigate knowledge, attitude and behaciors for AIDS among 1033 healthy inhabitants in both linquan and lixin by quota sampling.Results 98.4% of subjects had heard AIDS with 42.3% of them knew three HIV transmission routes, but the awareness rate of non-transmission routes was 22.9%. 12.1% of subjects gained the full marks on the whole AIDS related questions. 68.4% of responders held active attitude if there was an HIV infector in the families. The multiple liner regression analysis revealed that higher education and scores of AIDS related questions were negative associated with AIDS discrimination. Only 15.4% of responders had the experience of helping PLWHAs.Conclusions Part of subjects had basic knowledge on AIDS because of the local high prevalence of HIV and powerful propaganda from government, but the discrimination was still serious which was likely to long-standing exist. In addition, more than 50% of responders don't think they had any relationship with the disease, namely they were unconscious of the siocal problem. Effective intervention and propaganda should be used to eliminate the community discrimination, mobilize the whole community to resist against AIDS. Objective On the basis of quantitative interviews, qualitative interviews were used to understand the situation and demand of AIDS community suooprt in rural North Anhui. Methods Qualitative interviews coverd the persons who were related to AIDS community support were held in a face to face manner and symposium among keymen.The content of the interviews was about the situation of local AIDS prevention, the need of community support, suggestions.Results 44 participants took part in the focus group discussions and 19 symposia were held. The resluts revealed that social diacrimination to HIV exists badly, basic medical establishment were scarce seriously, the feeble tache exists in rural doctors. Confronting economic dilemma and lack of medical soured. Formation of rural communities urgently need to be accelerated.Conclusions Basic medical service, AIDS community support and concern need to improve. A mode of community care based on family and neighborhood is expected to established. Objective To explore quality of life and social support among people living with HIV/AIDS,and analyse the related factors.Methods 331 people living with HIV/AIDS and 148 of their family members were selected using typical sampling. General condition questionnaire, infected history survey table, generic quality of life inventory-74(GQOLI-74 ) and social support scale(SSS)were used.Results One-way analysis suggesteded that people living with HIV/AIDS and their family members with the different sexs, different villages and different culture degrees had difference in GQOLI-74 scores(P<0.05), people living with HIV/AIDS with the different villages had difference in SSS scores(P<0.05). Multiple linear regression analysis revealed that elders and negative life events were negative associated with social support(P<0.05),while the higher education, harmonious neighbor relationship, bother pouring were the predictive factors(P<0.05).Conclusions Many factors might affect dimensions of quality of life among people living with HIV/AIDS and their family members in rural north of Anhui, the communal care and social support of HIV/AIDS still should be enhanced greatly in Chinese country, a community care mode based on family and neighborhood is expected to established.