This study was designed to get basic data about AIDS educational program development of Adults.
The objective of this study was to identify the level of AIDS relatied Knowledge and Attitude of Adults. The subject for this study consisted of 327 men and women who were living in chonbuk province. Data was collected by self-reporting questionaire consist of 61 items during the period from 1st. December to 20th, December, 1996.
The results were us follow ;
1. AIDS related knowledge ranged from 6 to 32(M;23.13, SD:5.86). Percentage of correctly answered respondents to each categories ;
Risk factors :
· Infection through needle : 93.9%
· Infection through blood transfusion : 92.4%
· Infection of multi-sexuals : 90.5%
· Infection of hemophillias patients : 39.4%
· Infection of hemosexuals : 23.2%
Mode of transmission :
· Infection through pubic rest room : 56.3%
· Infection through personal materials : 65.1%
· Infection through food : 67.6%
2. The relationship between AIDS related knowledge and each of those general characteristics,
AIDS related knowledge showed significant difference with age(p=0.0293), marital status(p=0.003), sexual experience(p=0.020) and used contraceptive(p=0.015).
3. Among the items regarding attitudes, what has highed level was preventional education of National policy about AIDS(94.5%). What has lowest level of Attitudes was that AIDS carrier could go to school with noncarrier children(39.1%).
4. The relationship between attitude of AIDS and each of these general characteristics ; over 30 age group, married women, sexual experience and used contraceptive were higher than others.
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