Abstract
A cross sectional study was conducted among the adolescent students of 12 randomly selected higher secondary school of Chitwan district, Nepal with an objective to assess the awareness by studying their knowledge and attitude towards the disease. It is really very gratifying to note that 100.0% of the respondents had heard about the disease and majority of them (95.0% ) had correct knowledge about the causative agents. Among the respondents quite large number of students (79.0%) knew about high risk age group and 81.0% were aware about safe sex as one of the major preventive measure. The attitude of respondents towards the AIDS patients was firmly positive. Among them 84.5% had no objection in treating AIDS patients in the general hospital with extra precaution. The main source of their information, education and communication were from electronic media. These observations were indicative of good awareness about the disease which will definitely help in bringing about behavioral change at the individual level and will go in a long way for prevention of transmission amongst the high risk groups and to contain its spread. Journal of Institute of Medicine Vol.27(3) 2005
Highlights
Nepal ranks second in the SAARC region in terms of HIV prevalence, posing a great threat in the region
Since no such assessment has ever been attempted in this district, the present study was undertaken to assess the extent of knowledge and attitude of adolescent students of senior secondary school towards HIV/AIDS and to help the policy makers and programme managers deciding strategic programme for the target groups
This study was conducted from December 2004 to January 2005. a total of 1735 students of class XI and XII, from 12 randomly selected higher secondary schools of Chitwan district were included in this study
Summary
Nepal ranks second in the SAARC region in terms of HIV prevalence, posing a great threat in the region. Planning an appropriate HIV awareness programme for a specific target group must be relevant to its need and can be designed only after determining the existing knowledge, belief, attitude and practice pattern of that particular group[3]. Since no such assessment has ever been attempted in this district, the present study was undertaken to assess the extent of knowledge and attitude of adolescent students of senior secondary school towards HIV/AIDS and to help the policy makers and programme managers deciding strategic programme for the target groups
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