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KNOWLEDGE ATTITUDES AND RISK BEHAVIORS REGARDING

HIV/AIDS AMONG ADOLESCENTS

Sheng Yu

School of Nursing of Peking Union Medical College

Beijing, China

Objective: 1. To describe the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS among Chinese adolescents. 2. To describe the attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS among Chinese adolescents. 3. To describe the risk behaviors regarding HIV/AIDS among Chinese adolescents.

Methods: A stratified random sampling was used to select 294 Chinese adolescents who studied in the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Beijing Finance and Economy University, Beijing, P.R China. The instrument used in this study were a Demographic Data Profile, the Knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS Questionnaire (KAQ), the Attitudes regarding AIDS Questionnaire (AAQ), and the Risk Behaviors regarding HIV/AIDS Questionnaire (RBAQ). The CVI score of KAO, AAQ and RBAQ were.85, 78 and. 90 respectively. The descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data.

Results: 1.The total mean score of the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS of adolescents was at fair level (=17.28, SD=3.70). Most of the subjects (64.29%) had fair level of knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS. 2. The total mean score of the attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS of adolescents was at good level (=38.61, SD=4.40). Most of the subjects (69.73%) had high level of attitudes regarding HIV/AIDS. 3. The total mean score of the risk behaviors regarding HIV/AIDS of adolescents was at low level (=0.32, SD=1.37 ).

Conclusion: The findings of this study can be implicated and utilized as baseline information for nurses to plan for appropriate health education in order to increase knowledge, promote attitudes and minimize behaviors regarding HIV/AIDS among Chinese adolescents. Recommendations for nursing education and future research have been made.