Abstract
Introduction: The high prevalence of HIV infection among an age group of 18–25 years, both globally or nationally, was indicating students vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infections. Prevention of HIV risk behaviours can be used as a religiosity approach to strengthening the self-efficacy on prevention HIV-risk behaviour. However, there were limited studies on the association between religiosity and self-efficacy on prevention of HIV-risk behaviour among student, especially Muslim students. The aims of this study were to identify the correlation between religiosity with self-efficacy in the prevention of HIV-risk behaviours.Methods: The study employed a correlation study. The sample size comprised 404 Muslim university students with proportionate stratified random sampling. Student’s religiosity was measured by The Muslim Piety questionnaire and self-efficacy was measured by Self-Efficacy in the Prevention of HIV-Risk Behaviour questionnaire. Descriptive analysis using mean, standard deviation, percentage and frequency distribution. Meanwhile, inferential analysis using Pearson's Correlation.Results: The results were found that most of the students have high levels of religiosity and strong self-efficacy in the prevention of high-risk behaviour. Further analysis revealed a significant (p < 0.005) and strong correlations (r = 0.6780) between religiosity and self-efficacy in the prevention of HIV-risk behaviour. Higher levels of religiosity were followed by higher levels of self-efficacy on the prevention of HIV-risk behaviours among students.Conclusion: findings can be used by academic and health professionals, to implement a religiosity based program to strengthen a self-efficacy of HIV-risk behaviour. Further research can be a focus on the nursing interventions based on religious beliefs to strengthen self-efficacy in the prevention of HIV/AIDS infections.
Highlights
The high prevalence of HIV infection among an age group of 18– 25 years, both globally or nationally, was indicating students vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infections
Higher levels of religiosity were followed by higher levels of selfefficacy on the prevention of HIV-risk behaviours among students
The higher the Muslim religiosity will be followed by the higher self-efficacy of prevention of HIV risk behaviour among students
Summary
The high prevalence of HIV infection among an age group of 18– 25 years, both globally or nationally, was indicating students vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infections. There were limited studies on the association between religiosity and self-efficacy on prevention of HIV-risk behaviour among student, especially Muslim students. The aims of this study were to identify the correlation between religiosity with self-efficacy in the prevention of HIV-risk behaviours. The increasing incidence of new HIV cases among young people between ages 15-24 years in one year was 30% (5,000 people) (UNAIDS, 2014). Those report does not indicate to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS incident especially among college students, Hightow et al (2005) revealed that the trend of increasing HIV infection in the age 18-24 years happens to college students. The high numbers of HIV cases among college students have a correlation with their activities that are susceptible to HIV infection. A study about HIV-risk behaviour documented high rates in the college students (Chan, Passetti, Garner, Lloyd, & Dennis, 2011; de Carvalho et al, 2006; Khan et al, 2013)
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