| ObjectiveTo investigate the KAP status on HIV/AIDS in the college students who live in the area with high incidence of AIDS in Henan Province is high, and to evaluate the effectiveness of the four kinds of health education methords on HIV/AIDS prevention in the popuatipon. Methods1 Sampling and grouping:total of 542 freshmen were randomly selected from five classes of the liberal arts and science in Zhoukou Normal college. The students were randomly devided into five groups, the Peer Education Group (100 students), Health Prescription Group (120 students), Health Lecture Group (102 students), Life Skills Group (110 students), Control Group (110 students) and each group had one class students in science major and one class in art major.2 Survey method:The self-designded questionnaires about HIV/AIDS KAP were applied to investigate the college students' knowledge, attitude and behavior/practice regarding HIV/AIDS. The questionnaires were filled and collected on the spot. One survey was conducted at the baseline and the other was carried out one month after the health education regarding HIV/AIDS prevention.3 Health education methods:3.1 Peer Education Group:five peer educators were chosen and trained with AIDS knowledge and the health education skills. Then each one was responsible for the health educational task of 19 students. The education period was one week.3.2 Health Prescription Group:Health prescriptions were handed out to the college students and the students self-studied the contents.3.3 Health Lecture Group:The experienced HIV/AIDS health education experts gave a lecture to the college students.3.4 Life Skill Group:First,the students in Life Skills Group were organized to go to the "AIDS villages", and contacted with the HIV infected people or AIDS patients face to face. Second, the students were tought with the knowledge and skills of AIDS prevention and treatment by the participatory teaching methods.3.5 Control Group:None intervention was imposed to the college students. Results1 Baseline survey:The general average rate of knowledge awareness regarding AIDS was 80.2% at the baseline survey in the students and were 82.8%,81.3%, 79.0%,74.8%,83.1%. in the Peer Education Group, Health Prescription Group, Health Lecture Group, Life Skills Group and Control Group respectively. The awareness rate regrading the transmission and non-transmission pathes was low, which was 74.2%,63.3% and 47.9% respectively. The proportion of the students who were willing to study in the same classroom and live in same dorm with the HIV/AIDS was low, which was 44.8% and 46.5% respectively.2 After-health-education survery results:After health education, the average knowledge awareness rates regarding AIDS in the five groups were 93.3%,87.7%, 89.3%,81.6% and 84.9.% respectively and raised by 5.3%,2.7%,4.6%,3.4% and 0.1% respectively. The positive attitude to HIV/AIDS in the Peer Education Group, Health Prescription Groupand Life Skills Group was improved about 21.3%,4.9% and 12.7% respectively, while the positive attitude of Health Lecture Group was decreased.Conclusions1 The knowledge awareness regarding HIV/AIDS in the college student was much lower than 85%, which is the level assigned by our country. Lacking of the knowledge regarding the HIV transmission was the remarbale. Some students discriminated against HIV/AIDS patients seriously.2 The effect of the peer education was the best, which made the college students'HIV/AIDS-related knowledge and attitudes improved significantly. The second was the life skills. The method of health lecture improved the college students'HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, but didn't make their attitude to HIV infected people or AIDS patients better significantly. The effect of health prescription was not significant.
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