Effect evaluation of health education and behavioral intervention on AIDS among migrant workers in railway construction sites
- VernacularTitle:铁路工地流动人口艾滋病健康教育和行为干预效果评价
- Author:
Jianbo ZHOU
;
Yehuan SUN
;
Jiahu HAO
;
Chen YU
;
Bo WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome;
Intervention studies;
Outcome assessment
- From:
Chinese Journal of Disease Control & Prevention
2009;0(02):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To evaluate the effect of behavioral intervention on changing knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) about AIDS among the migrant workers in railway construction sites. Methods Health education and behavioral intervention on AIDS were carried out among the migrant workers for 4 to 5 months, who were clusteredly sampled from two railway construction sites, in the forms of mini-media, peer education and so on. Questionnaire survey was conducted among them before and after the intervention. Results The results showed that the knowledge awareness of the migrant workers on the transmission routes, preventions of AIDS and self-protection consciousness increased significantly by comparing the indexes of 943 pre-intervention with those of 671 post-intervention workers. After intervention procedures, the rate of those workers who would adopt negative attitudes towards the HIV infected persons because of fear and discrimination was decreased from 9.8% and 10.5% to 6.3% and 3.5% (both P
