Intervention effect of risk warning education on AIDS in pilot colleges

Objective To understand knowledge and attitudes of AIDS among young students in Jiangsu Province,and to explore effective measures to improve awareness of AIDS prevention.Methods A total of 3 422 young students were selected randomly from six pilot colleges.Risk warning education video playing and health education prescriptions were given to the participants.Changes in knowledge and attitudes were compared before and after education.Results After education,the awareness of the basic knowledge of AIDS in all students increased from 69.1% to 82.2% (x2 =147.335,P<0.01);Overall increases in ranged between 3.8% to 16.6%.The awareness on "AIDS-related knowledge is more important through health education in school","Antibody test when having HIV infection risk","condom use in sexual activity" each increased to 91.53%,88.5% and 56.37% to 94.99%,92.8% and 60.92% (x2 =31.151,34.895,20.862,P<0.01).Conclusion Knowledge and attitudes of AIDS prevention need to be improved among college students in Jiangsu Province.AIDS-related video playing and AIDS prevention prescription is proved to be effective and could be implemented in a large-scale HIV/AIDS prevention in colleges.