A survey on AIDS discrimination among medical college students.

Jia-hong LIU; Hong-ying JIANG; Hong CHEN; Qing-hua LIAO; Jun FU; Fei-bao LU; Wei-xin LIU; Yue LI

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A survey on AIDS discrimination among medical college students.

Author: Jia-hong LIU ¹ ; Hong-ying JIANG ; Hong CHEN ; Qing-hua LIAO ; Jun FU ; Fei-bao LU ; Wei-xin LIU ; Yue LI
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1. AIDS/STD Control and Prevention Department, Jiangxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanchang 330029, China.
Publication Type:Journal Article
MeSH: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; Female; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Male; Prejudice; Students, Medical; psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Young Adult
From: Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine 2009;43(11):1026-1028
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo understand the related knowledge, discrimination attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among medical college students, and to provide scientific evidence for further HIV/AIDS anti-discrimination intervention.
METHODSBy means of stratified cluster sampling to classes, 2844 undergraduate students were randomly selected from medical colleges. A self-designed and self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted, and SPSS 13.0 software was used for data analysis.
RESULTS2501 valid questionnaires had been collected. The overall HIV/AIDS knowledge coverage rate of the respondents was 73.1% (1828/2501); The HIV/AIDS discrimination rates in different questions were varying, the discrimination rate of infected with AIDS by bad sex and sharing needles was 83.1% (2078/2501) and 77.7% (1943/2501) respectively, the discrimination rates in term of contacting with HIV patients and their daily necessities, sharing desks, personal social were all exceeding 40%.
CONCLUSIONThe medical students held serious discrimination attitudes to HIV infected persons and patients; it is necessary to strengthen anti-discrimination education about HIV/AIDS among medical students.