The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of an AIDS education on knowledge and attitudes about AIDS in high school students. The study was conducted in Kwangju city from 24th of June to 21st of July 1996. Research design of this study was a quasi-experimental research(non equivalent control group pretest-posttest design).
The subjects were 200 students from two girls’ high school(experimental group:100, control group:100), selected by a convenience sampling method. The experimental group met for two-hour sessions of AIDS education(The first session was definition, etiology, symptoms of AIDS and the second session was transmission, treatment and prevention of AIDS).
Data were collected before the AIDS education and after 2 weeks later in experimental group and also at the same time in control group.
The pc-SAS package was used to analyze the data along with Chi-square test, t-test and regression.
The result of this study were as follows :
1. Religion(x2=4.022, p=0.045), experiences of drinking alcohol(x2=15.286, p=0.000) and educational experiences of AIDS(x2=14.82. p=0.000) showed significant differences in homogeneity test between experimental group and control group.
2. In Hypothesis 1. "The scores of AIDS knowledge in experimental group will be higher than that of control group." was supported. After education, the experimental group showed significant improvement in the scores of AIDS knowledge, but the control group showed no significant differences(t=9.76, p=0.0001).
3. In Hypothesis 2. The scores of AIDS attitude in experimental group will be higher than that of control group" was rejected. After education, the experimental group showed improvement in the scores of AIDS attitude, but showed no significant differences(t=1.08, p=0.278) with control group.
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