Survey on status quo of knowledge, attitudes of AIDS among medical college students

VernacularTitle:医学生AIDS知识和态度现况调查
Author: Dan LIU ¹ ; Yi HUANG ; Zheng LIU
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1. 重庆医科大学公共卫生与管理学院社会医学与卫生事业管理教研室
Keywords: HIV infections; acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; questionnaires; medical college student; knowledge; attitude; source
From: Chongqing Medicine 2018;47(10):1366-1368,1372
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To understand the grasping degree of AIDS knowledge in medical college students.Methods The cluster random sampling method was adopted to conduct the anonymous survey on 747 medical students from 3 colleges by using the self-administered questionnaire.Results The correct answer rates of medical students to partial AIDS knowledge was above 87.0％,but which to "mosquito bites" or " whether sharing razors and toothbrushes can spread AIDS" was relatively low,the difference among different grades was statistically significant (P＜0.05);77.1％ of students held "sympathetic" attitude on AIDS infected people,the freshmen and juniors had a statistically significant difference in attitude towards AIDS patients (P＜0.05);the top three pathways for the medical students obtaining the AIDS knowledge were newspapers and books (91.8％),school education (83.9％) and network (77.5％).Conclusion Senior medical students master AIDS knowledge relatively well.