Study On Behavioral Intervention Mode For Preventing AIDS Among Married Women In Rural Areas Of North Anhui

Objective To investigate AIDS-related knowledge, attitude, behavior and related risk factors among rural married women and develop and implement targeted comprehensive intervention measures and evaluate the intervention effect so as to find an effective intervention mode to prevent and treat AIDS among married women in rural areas of North Anhui.Methods 737 rural married women aged from 18 to 49 were selected by radom clustered sampling from 8 villages in two towns of Qiaochen District of Anhui province. Unicariate analysis, multivariate logistic regression were used to explore their influencing factors of knowledge, attitude and practice about AIDS among rural married women for 6 months, which included mini-media, peer education and so on. Questionnaire survey was conducted among them before and after the intervention to evaluate the effect of behavioral intervention.Results The rural married women obtained the knowledge of AIDS mainly by watching TV, reading newspapers and friends. The awareness of three transmitted route is from 48.2% to 91.7%,but the awareness of non-transmitted route is about 50%.The higher education level and income class of the rural women,the more they knew about AIDS related knowledge than the others . The rate of using condom in their sex lives was only 5.4% for the last 3 months.11.1% rural married women had obtained free condom regularly and 23.6% had bought condom initiatively.They thought condoms were used as contraception, not for preventing AIDS. The results showed that the knowledge awareness of the rural married women on the transmission routes,preventions of AIDS and self-protection consciousness increased significantly by comparing the indexes of 737 before-intervention with those of 509 after-intervention women.After intervention procedures,the rate of those women who would shake hands with HIV infected persons and buy food from HIV infected persons and not keep distance with HIV infected persons was increased from 51.4%,0.7% and 58.5% to 62.1%,47.4% and 67.6%(both P<0.05).The rate of those women,who used condoms for the last 3 months,was raised from 5.4% to 18.5%.Conclusions Rural married women are potential high risk population for HIV/AIDS.AIDS behavioral intervention work should be carried out imminently. Behavioral intervention mode for preventing AIDS among rural married women is feasible and effective,which takes the rural married women as the center and integrates district, township and village IPPF and township health resources...