تاثير آموزش بر آگاهي دانش آموزان دبيرستان از بيماري ايدز

Evaluating high school HIV/AIDS education: implications of intervention

Everyday, 7000 youth(10-24years old) are infected by HIV according to a WHO report. Educational interventions, such as school- based programs are one of the best defenses against the spread of AIDS. Hence, to assess students knowledge of HIV/AIDS and to evaluate the effectiveness of education, the present study was designed and implemented. This is a quasi-experimental study which was conducted in public high schools of the third educational region of Tehran metropolitan in 2002. Using random stratified sampling method a total of 246 students were selected and findings were analyzed using SPSSFW. The results implied that in case group, before the intervention, 50.6% had very good HIV/AIDS knowledge comparing to 93.3% after the ivtervention. Paired t-test showed that knowledge scores of case group were significantly different before and after the intervention (p=0.000) while there was seen no statistically significant differencesʹ in the knowledge scores of control group from pre-test through post-test (p=0.151). It is recommended to implement high school HIV/AIDS educational programs in order to assist to these students, who are one of the high - risk groups for HIV/AIDS and are in a modifiable stage in terms of beliefs, attitude, and behaviors; because, knowledge is one of the prerequisites of beliefs, attitude and behavioral change.