Meta-analvsis on the effects of health education towards HIV/AIDS high-risk behavior,knowledge, and related attitude among floating population in China
10.3760/cma.j.issn.0254-6450.2012.01.022
- VernacularTitle:健康教育对中国流动人口艾滋病高危性行为干预效果的Meta分析
- Author:
Lan-Xin CHEN
1
;
Hao LIANG
;
Xiao-Bo YANG
Author Information
1. 广西医科大学
- Keywords:
AIDS;
Health Education;
Floating population;
High-risk behavior;
Meta-analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Epidemiology
2012;33(1):99-105
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the effects of health education on HIV/AIDS high-risk behaviors,knowledge,and attitude among floating population in China.Methods A computerized literature searching was carried out in Chinese Biomedical Database,Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure,Wan Fang and VIP databases to collect articles published in China between 2005 and 2010.Words as “AIDS”,“ Floating Population”,“ Intervention ”,“ Health Education ”,“ High-risk Behavior” were used.Type of studies would include “self-control intervention studies or studies containing sections of self-control intervention”.Meta-analyses were performed to assess 8 outcomes which targeting on high-risk behavior,knowledge and attitudes of AIDS.RevMan 4.2 software was used to analyze the intervention effects for these indexes.Results After the interventions,the rate on awareness of “Whether condoms can reduce the HIV/AIDS infection risk” increased by 23％ [rate difference (RD) 95％ CI: 0.19,0.27] and “Whether keeping monogamous sexual relationship can reduce the risk of infection” increased by 18％ (RD 95％CI: 0.14,0.23 ).The proportion of “Willing to use condoms in sexual life” increased by 16％ (RD 95％ CI: 0.11,0.22) ; and “The incidence of commercial sex behaviors” reduced by 6％ (RD 95％ CI:-0.11,-0.02).“The Ratio of condom use during commercial sex behaviors” increased by 17％ (RD 95％CI: 0.10,0.23).and “Recent use of condoms during sex” increased by 25％ (RD 95％CI: 0.15,0.35).All the data showed significant differences (P＜0.01),respectively.Conclusion After health education,great improvements were found for HIV-related sexual knowledge,attitudes,and behaviors among the floating population.
