The study of KBP of road construction workers of highway AIDS prevention project before and after intervention
Dan LIU; Si-Ping DONG; Guang-Ming GAO; Ming-Yu FAN; Zong-Jiu ZHANG; Peng-Qian FANG.
Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine
; (12): 817-822, 2013.
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OBJECTIVE@#To get scientific basis for further health education through the research of the road construction workers' KBP before and after the interventions of highway AIDS prevention project.@*METHODS@#Multi-stage random sampling method was employeed to select workers of 8 sites from 14 sites along highway to investigate their AIDS knowledge, belief and performance (KBP) before and after highway AIDS prevention project.@*RESULTS@#Over 90% of the investigated workers had ever heard about AIDS, and the non-skilled workers of lower educational level improved more after intervention. The correct answer rate of the three transmitting ways of AIDS of drivers which is the focused group of highway before and after intervention had the obvious statistical significance (P<0.05), and the other group's correct answer rates also had improved after intervention. Most people's understanding of preventing AIDS through correct use of condoms when having sex had a statistically significant difference(P<0.05) after prevention. The rates of using condoms of foremen and skilled workers when having sex with commercial sex worker/casual partner increased after intervention.@*CONCLUSIONS@#The health education of HIV among the road construction workers is effective and further health education of HIV prevention should be carried out among the road construction workers to improve their knowledge and awareness of avoiding the high-risk behaviors.
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