Effect of Health Education on HIV/AIDS for Students in a Middle School in Wanli District

Objectives To understand the knowledge of students on AIDs in a middle school in Wanli district and to evaluate the effect of health education.

Methods The knowledge on AIDs of 432 students in the grade three of a middle school sampled by cluster sampling was investigated before and after health education.

Results The awareness of AIDs knowledge in middle school students before and after the health education was increased from 70.34% to 93.19% (χ²=610.405, P < 0.001); which was increased from 68.26% to 92.10% in rural students(χ²=10.42, P=0.001) and from 73.37% to 94.76% in urban students (χ²=9.74, P=0.002). The first three sources of information on AIDs in middle school students before the health education were from TV(87.58%), billboard and advertising column (62.07%), and community organizing campaigns(61.38%); those after the health education were from school education (97.25%), doctors (95.24%) and TV(87.41%).

Conclusions The effect of opening AIDs health education lessons among middle school students was obvious. More attention should be paid to the health education on AIDs in middle school students, and the experiences should be extended to more schools.