Study on HIV/AIDS knowledge,attitudes and health education among health workers in a frontier area of Yunnan where national ethnics are major inhabitants and HIV incidence is still low
- VernacularTitle:傈僳族地区预防保健工作者应对艾滋病能力的调查和干预
- Author:
Qingsong CHEN
;
Ping LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
HIV/AIDS;
Investigation;
Health education
- From:
Chinese Journal of AIDS & STD
2006;0(02):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate knowledge and attitudes of healthcare workers with respect to HIV/AIDS in Fugong County,Nujiang District and to highlight the difficulties facing local healthcare workers in HIV/AIDS health education in order to help them improve their skills and capability of health education through participatory learning.(note:the major inhabitants in NuJiang are the Lisu ethnic).Methods A survey with questionnaires was carried out before starting a HIV/AIDS health education training course for healthcare workers in Fugong County.Then an interactive and participative HIV/AIDS training was provided for these healthcare workers.A post-training survey was followed.Results Before the training course,the score of HIV/AIDS related knowledge was 56.71 on average.The average score increased to 83.93 after the participatory HIV/AIDS health education,(by SPSS analysis).Such an increase was obviously associated with their participation in the training course.The knowledge the participants learned during the training course was effectively used for conducting health education among local inhabitants.Conclusion We found that a participatory/interactive HIV health education training course is useful in raising the awareness and understanding of HIV/AIDS among healthcare workers in areas such as Fugong.We encourage more efforts to hold such courses in order to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
