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Iranian Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2010; 5 (3): 161-165
in English | IMEMR | ID: emr-122296

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Surveying knowledge of nurses about HIV/AIDS can provide an evidence for designing appropriate educational program. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge of a sample of Iranian nurses about patients living with HIV/AIDS in Bandar Abbas, Iran. In this cross sectional study, 150 nurses completed two questionnaires, one dealing with demographic data and the other inquiring knowledge of nurses about HIV/AIDS based on existing instruments developed by Eckstein in 1987. The mean age of studied sample was 31.9 +/- 8.2 years. At the time of the study, 63.3% of the respondents had previously cared HIV-infected subjects. Most of the participants [99.3%] knew that drug abusers were at higher risk for HIV acquisition. Most of the participants [97.3%] also answered correctly that person with HIV could be asymptomatic but still infected. Finally, 29.3% thought that recapping used needles is a good way to prevent HIV infection. Those who had participated in educational program had higher overall scores of knowledge than non-participants [10.09 +/- 2.18 vs. 9.66 +/- 2.32, p=0.002]


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Humans , Male , Female , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/nursing , Cross-Sectional Studies , Clinical Competence , Nursing Staff, Hospital , HIV
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