Life Skill Investigation On HIV Related Risk Factors Among 16～25 Years Old Young People In Yining And Kashgar City Of Xinjiang

Objective: Through life skill investigation on HIV related risk factors among 16～25 years old young people in Yining and Kashgar city of Xinjiang, to understand the situation of life skill and peer influence among local young people, to provide detail suggestion for the design of prevention work which focus on the life skill of local young people, at the same time to get the baseline result for future evaluation. Methods: The investigation fields were selected at B and Y county of Yining city and X and D county of Kashgar city in Xinjiang. Some 16～25 years old young people were chose by random in those four counties. All people who have been selected were asked to fill in the questionnaire through face to face interview. The questionnaire include the level of life skill and the degree of peer influence. All results were analyzed by statistic methods. Results: 1) Among 2111 target population, at the area of the capacity of Self perceptions and empathy , For positive answers,between 45.4% to 65% .Yinning city was lower than Kashgar (P<0.05). Male was lower than female (P<0.05). 2) At the area of the capacity of effective communication and relationship, 40.1% of people said they agree that smoking and drinking can help you have more friends; 38.6% of smokers said that the reason of smoking is needs of social communication; 88.5% of people who are no smoking, drinking or drug using chose to evade; 83.3% of them chose to leave; 86.9% of them chose to reject. The rate of male and female who are no smoking, drinking or drug using chose to evade are 83.1% and 90.5% respectively. 3) At the area of the capacity of Regulation of emotion and Relieve pressure, the reasons of smoking are relaxation (44.5%) and reducing pressure (41.2%); the reasons of drinking are relaxation (38.1%) and reducing pressure(35.0%); More people in Yining city are relaxation and more people in Kashgar city are reducing pressure. 4) At the area of the capacity of Creative and critical thought , 80.9% of people disagreed that smoking can make you look cooler; 77.7% of people disagreed that drinking can help to resolve problem; 87.2% of people disagreed that drug using can make you look cooler; 97.3% of people disagreed that drug using can help to resolve problem Yinning city was lower than Kashgar (P<0.05). Male was lower than female (P<0.05). 5) At the area of the capacity of Decision making and solve problems, 51.3% of female couldn't accept unsafe sex behavior; 51.8% of female couldn't persist in partner's safe sex behavior; 44.2% of female couldn't reject unsafe sex behavior. 40.4% of male couldn't accept unsafe sex behavior; 48.2% of male couldn't persist in partner's safe sex behavior; 53.7% of male couldn't reject unsafe sex behavior. 6) At the area of peer influence, 88.0% of smokers expressed that the influence for their behavior come from friends, peers and classmate; These target population will choose none (38.7%), parents (27.6%), friends or classmate (23.7%) and others(6.3%). They know HIV related knowledge from TV (91.0%), poster (54.4%), broadcast (52.3%), newspaper or magazine (31.8%), community education (30.6%), friends, peer or classmate (24.9%) and classroom (10.5%). The way of their entertainment are TV (83.0%), chatting with friends (55.2%), play cards (27.0%), singing and dancing (21.3%), playing ball (20.5%), others (15.1%) and eating with friends (14.4%). More female know HIV related knowledge from TV, broadcast, magazine, family members and classroom; more male know them from friends, peer or classmate, family members, posters and community education. Conclusions: 1) The general information of these people is similar, the knowledge, attitude and behavior are comparability between two group. The most of people are uygur ethnic group; the main education degree are primary school and junior middle school; more than one third of them have religion. The sample of investigation meet the criterion of target population. 2) The rate of reason for increasing or keeping self confidence among smokers and drinkers are low, it shows that local young people have some degree self confidence, some of young people are lack of self confidence. 3) The local young people have correct knowledge to drug related things, this may have relationship with local prohibition of drug and HIV related education. Most of people realize to reject, however the way of rejection is simple and direct, most of them are lack of rejection skill. 4) The main smoking reason is peer pressure, most of people believe it is communication needs, relaxation and fashion lifestyle. Some of people believe that smoking or drinking can help you get more friends. All these results show that a large of local young people are lack of independent life skill, they have high life pressure. 5) Neither male or female have self confidence on safe sex behavior. Male dominate sex behavior, but life skill at analysis and justice the health risk below to female, this will increase the risk of getting STIs. 6) The target population have a few of entertainment, most of them don't participate in activities from community and social.