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Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students
BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS has emerged as the single most formidable challenge to public health. School children of today are exposed to the risk of HIV/AIDS. AIMS: The study was conducted to determine the knowledge among secondary school students regarding HIV/AIDS and provide suggestions for HIV/AIDS ed...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3624712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23641373 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.107531 |
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author | Gupta, Pratibha Anjum, Fatima Bhardwaj, Pankaj Srivastav, JP Zaidi, Zeashan Haider |
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description | BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS has emerged as the single most formidable challenge to public health. School children of today are exposed to the risk of HIV/AIDS. AIMS: The study was conducted to determine the knowledge among secondary school students regarding HIV/AIDS and provide suggestions for HIV/AIDS education in schools. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among students of tenth to twelfth standard in the intermediate schools of Lucknow, India, from July to October 2011. A total of 215 students, both boys and girls, were enrolled in the study. RESULTS: In this study, for majority of the students (85%), the source of information about HIV/AIDS was the television. Regarding knowledge about modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS among girl students, 95.1% of them told that it is through unprotected sex. A total of 75.8% students said that it was transmitted from mother to child. CONCLUSION: It was observed that the knowledge of the school students was quite satisfactory for most of the variables like modes of transmission, including mother-to-child transmission of the disease. However, schools should come forward to design awareness campaigns for the benefit of the students. |
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spelling | pubmed-36247122013-05-02 Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students Gupta, Pratibha Anjum, Fatima Bhardwaj, Pankaj Srivastav, JP Zaidi, Zeashan Haider N Am J Med Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS has emerged as the single most formidable challenge to public health. School children of today are exposed to the risk of HIV/AIDS. AIMS: The study was conducted to determine the knowledge among secondary school students regarding HIV/AIDS and provide suggestions for HIV/AIDS education in schools. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted among students of tenth to twelfth standard in the intermediate schools of Lucknow, India, from July to October 2011. A total of 215 students, both boys and girls, were enrolled in the study. RESULTS: In this study, for majority of the students (85%), the source of information about HIV/AIDS was the television. Regarding knowledge about modes of transmission of HIV/AIDS among girl students, 95.1% of them told that it is through unprotected sex. A total of 75.8% students said that it was transmitted from mother to child. CONCLUSION: It was observed that the knowledge of the school students was quite satisfactory for most of the variables like modes of transmission, including mother-to-child transmission of the disease. However, schools should come forward to design awareness campaigns for the benefit of the students. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013-02 /pmc/articles/PMC3624712/ /pubmed/23641373 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.107531 Text en Copyright: © North American Journal of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Gupta, Pratibha Anjum, Fatima Bhardwaj, Pankaj Srivastav, JP Zaidi, Zeashan Haider Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students |
title | Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students |
title_full | Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students |
title_fullStr | Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students |
title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students |
title_short | Knowledge About HIV/AIDS Among Secondary School Students |
title_sort | knowledge about hiv/aids among secondary school students |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3624712/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23641373 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1947-2714.107531 |
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