Investigation on AIDS Prevention Knowledge, Attitudes and Education Practice among Secondary School Health Personnel and Health Education Teachers

ObjectiveTo assess the AIDS-prevention knowledge,attitudes and education practices among secondary school health personnel and health education teachers.MethodsSix hundred and fifty-three health personnel and health education teachers of secondary schools from 14 cities throughout China were surveyed by self-administered questionnaire.ResultsMore than ninety-five percent of school health personnel and health education teachers know knowledge ways in which of HIV can be transmitted and the risk is reduced by using condom correctly.However,basic knowledge of ways in which the virus is not transmitted,prevention and treatment needs improvement.More than ninety percent of the health personnel approved of AIDS prevention education in universities(97.9%)and secondary schools(90.5%).Eighty-eight point nine percent of them said that they were willing to conduct AIDS prevention education in their school.Seventy one point two percent said that they were willing to work in the same office with a HIV positive colleague.About 53.3% of health personnel reported that they were trained on school AIDS prevention education.The major difficulty they met was a lack of suitable reference books(67.0%).The help they want to get were mainly training,resource books,audiovisual products,expert guidance.ConclusionSecondary school health personnel/health education teachers in China need to be trained;the books and related audiovisual products of school HIV/AIDS prevention education for the teachers should be produced as soon as possible.