Abstract
In recent years, adolescent has become one of the high-risk groups for HIV. Meanwhile, good HIV awareness and positive attitude are essential for HIV prevention. This study aims to evaluate the extent to which college students understand HIV and their attitudes toward HIV-infected patients, as well as the correlative factors. The data used in this study came from a cross-sectional survey. An anonymous online questionnaire was used to investigate the demographic characteristics, HIV/AIDS-related knowledge, and attitudes toward HIV-infected patients of 17,678 students from a university in Henan. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square test and logistic regression were used to analyze differences and connections between variables in SPSS version 25.0. Participants' HIV/AIDS-related knowledge awareness rate was 80.8%. Levels of students' HIV/AIDS-related knowledge correlated with their gender, nationality, marital status, and their grade (p < 0.01). Female students [OR = 0.757, 95% CI (0.699–0.820)] and minority students (OR = 0.717, 95% CI (0.619–0.832)] had insufficient HIV health education knowledge. Meanwhile, male students (OR = 0.845, 95% CI (0.773–0.924)], and students with good HIV knowledge (OR unaware-ness/awareness = 2.385, 95% CI (2.111–2.694)] were more likely to hold a positive attitude toward HIV-infected patients. The relevant education departments should strengthen and promote the education of AIDS transmission and prevention. Many college students still hold negative attitude toward HIV-infected patients. The government should further make efforts to eliminate social discrimination in HIV-infected patients and lead people to approach HIV-infected patients fairly.
Highlights
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is an infectious disease caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus)
The analysis showed that the gender, marital status and knowledge of college students had varying degrees of influence on their attitudes to live with HIV-positive roommates: “Positive” compared to “negative.” Male students were 0.845 times more likely to have a negative attitude than female students (OR = 0.845, 95% Confidence of Interval (CI) = 0.773–0.924); The possibility that those who did not meet the standard were unwilling to live with HIVinfected patients was 2.753 times that of those who met the standard (OR = 2.753, 95% CI = 2.391–3.170)
This study aims to describe the current situation of HIV health education among Chinese college students and the acceptance of contemporary college students to live in the same room with HIV-positive roommates, analyze its influencing factors
Summary
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) is an infectious disease caused by HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). The emergence of HIV has brought new challenges to the public health of countries around the world, especially developing countries [1, 2]. According to a report by the World Health Organization, in 2020 alone, 410,000 young people aged from 10 to 24 years were newly infected with HIV, of whom 150,000 were adolescents between the ages of 10 and 19 [3]. China attaches great importance to HIV health education for young students, related policies have declined after 2006 [5]. The awareness rate of HIV health education knowledge among young students (69.22–81.24%) is generally lower than the national standard (90%) [14], especially the misunderstanding of the transmission mode of HIV [6, 7]
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