Investigation on Knowledge and Attitude about HIV/AIDS among Medical College Students

Objective To investigate the knowledge and attitude about HIV/AIDS among medical college students,so as to provide information for HIV/AIDS prevention and control.Methods Ten classes,with a total of 341 second-year college students,were randomly selected from a medical university.An anonymous questionnaire survey on knowledge and attitudes about HIV/AIDS was conducted.Results The rate of right answers to HIV transmission routes was higher than 90%,while the rates of right answers to non-transmission routes and early symptoms of HIV/AIDS were lower.The scores for HIV/AIDS knowledge of students with urban origins were significantly higher than those for students with rural origins(P0.05).The main approaches for medical college students to acquire HIV/AIDS knowledge were through school course education,internet,TV,newspaper and magazines.In term of the attitudes towards HIV/AIDS patients,the medical college students had good performance,and those with urban origins got higher scores than those with rural origins(P0.05).No correlation was found between HIV/AIDS-related knowledge score and attitude score(r=0.06,P0.05).Conclusions The knowledge and attitude of medical college students towards HIV/AIDS still need to be improved.It is urgent to further strengthen HIV/AIDS health education,especially education on knowledge of HIV/AIDS prevention and control targeting rural students.