A school-based AIDS education programme for secondary school students in Nigeria: a review of effectiveness
A school-based AIDS education programme for secondary school students in Nigeria: a review of effectiveness
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DOI：
10.1093/her/14.5.675
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发表时间：
1999-10-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Brieger, WR
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作者：
Fawole, IO;Asuzu, MC;Brieger, WR
尼日利亚中学生的性活动年龄越来越小。性行为活跃的学生有接触性病的风险，包括感染艾滋病毒。因此，学校正在实施提高知识水平、影响态度和鼓励安全性行为的健康教育举措，但这些方案的有效性尚未得到评估。本研究对223名接受综合健康教育干预的学生的知识、态度和性危险行为进行了调查，并与217名对照组进行了比较。在测试后，干预学生对艾滋病传播和预防的知识有了更多的了解(P<；0.05)，干预学生不太可能认为艾滋病是白人的疾病，更有可能对艾滋病患者持宽容态度(P<；0.05)。干预后，实验生的平均报告性伴人数从1.51人下降到1.06人，而对照组从1.3人增加到1.39人。在干预学生中，持续使用避孕套和最后一次性交时使用避孕套的情况也有所增加。我们的结论是，学生可以从具体的教育方案中受益，这些方案传递必要的重要信息，以防止危险行为，并改善对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的知识和态度。
Nigerian secondary school students are becoming sexually active at an increasing earlier age. Sexually active students are at risk of contacting STDs, including HIV infection. As a result, health education initiatives to increase level of knowledge, influence attitudes and encourage safe sexual practices are being implemented in schools, but the effectiveness of these programmes have not been evaluated. In this study, the knowledge, attitude and sexual risk behaviors of 223 students who received a comprehensive health education intervention were compared with 217 controls. At post-test, intervention students exhibited greater knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission and prevention (P < 0.05), Intervention students were less likely to feel AIDS is a white man's disease and were more likely to be tolerant of people living with the disease (P < 0.05). After the intervention, the mean number of reported sexual partners among the experimental students significantly decreased from 1.51 to 1.06, while it increased from 1.3 to 1.39 among the controls. Among the intervention students there was also an increase in consistent use of the condom and the use of the condom at last sexual intercourse. We conclude that students can benefit from specific education programmes that transmit important information necessary to prevent risky behavior, and improve knowledge and attitudes on HIV/AIDS.