Survey on status quo of knowledge, attitudes of AIDS among medical college students / 重庆医学

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the grasping degree of AIDS knowledge in medical college students.Methods The cluster random sampling method was adopted to conduct the anonymous survey on 747 medical students from 3 colleges by using the self-administered questionnaire.Results The correct answer rates of medical students to partial AIDS knowledge was above 87.0％,but which to "mosquito bites" or " whether sharing razors and toothbrushes can spread AIDS" was relatively low,the difference among different grades was statistically significant (P＜0.05);77.1％ of students held "sympathetic" attitude on AIDS infected people,the freshmen and juniors had a statistically significant difference in attitude towards AIDS patients (P＜0.05);the top three pathways for the medical students obtaining the AIDS knowledge were newspapers and books (91.8％),school education (83.9％) and network (77.5％).Conclusion Senior medical students master AIDS knowledge relatively well.