Knowledge and attitudes on hiv transmission in students from a medical school in perú

A study was carried out in order to determine knowledge and attitudes regarding the transmission of the human immune deficiency virus HIV- among fourth year medical students that were on the epidemiology course at the School of Medicine, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima. A questionnaire survey was applied to 204 students with 10 knowledge questions and 05 attitude questions regarding HIV transmission. 91,6 % of the answers on knowledge and 77% of those in attitudes were correct. 46 % of the students indicated that blood donors could transmit HIV; 10 % said that HIV infection could be transmitted via mosquitoes. As for the attitudes, 22% of those surveyed indicated that they would commit suicide if they were HIV infected. The attitude towards suicide was moderately associated with the male sex (OR=2.36). Therefore, most of the students have correct knowledge regarding HIV transmission and a lesser percentage of students, though also important, assumes incorrect attitudes.

• Autores: Sanabria Rojas, Hernán
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 1999
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/32269
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/32269; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/22349/
• Palabra clave: transmisión del VIH; SIDA; conocimientos; actitudes; epidemiología; HIV transmission; AIDS; knowledge; attitudes; epidemiology
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional