Merakou Koula, Costopoulos Chris, Marcopoulou Joanna, Kourea-Kremastinou Jeny
National School of Public Health, Department of Public and Administrative Health, 196 Alexandras Ave., Athens 115 21, Greece.
Eur J Public Health. 2002 Jun;12(2):90-3. doi: 10.1093/eurpub/12.2.90.
This paper reports efforts to estimate the results of the prevention policy of HIV/AIDS in young people, 15 years after the first case of AIDS in Greece by investigating the current level of knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, behaviour and practices of high school students towards HIV/AIDS.
Questionnaires from 702 students of 13 technical high schools in the Athens area were collected and analysed in 1997.
72% of the questions regarding knowledge were answered accurately. 43.15% of the participants believed that their knowledge about HIV/AIDS was sufficient. They considered AIDS to be a big threat to society (89.65%), and would be embarrassed if they were HIV positive (31.75%), however, they would be compassionate to HIV positive persons. One out of three were worried about already being HIV infected, because of their risky behaviour in the past, especially boys. The major change in their behaviour was the use of a condom (80.9% for boys and 56.7% for girls). 64.8% of the girls did not have sexual relations, while 41.9% of the boys had sexual relations with casual partners.
After 15 years of prevention activities among young people, students have a satisfactory level of knowledge and have adopted relatively safe behaviour. However, boys, younger students, students with a high sense of religiousness and students with both excellent and low school records need more intense and systematic information through suitable interventions.
本文报告了在希腊首例艾滋病病例出现15年后，通过调查高中生对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的知识、态度、信念、行为和实践的当前水平，来评估针对年轻人的艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防政策效果的工作。
1997年收集并分析了雅典地区13所技术高中702名学生的问卷。
72%关于知识的问题回答正确。43.15%的参与者认为他们对艾滋病毒/艾滋病的了解足够。他们认为艾滋病对社会是一个巨大威胁（89.65%），如果自己呈艾滋病毒阳性会感到尴尬（31.75%），然而，他们会对艾滋病毒阳性者表示同情。三分之一的人因过去的危险行为，尤其是男孩，担心自己已感染艾滋病毒。他们行为的主要变化是使用避孕套（男孩为80.9%，女孩为56.7%）。64.8%的女孩没有性行为，而41.9%的男孩与临时伴侣发生过性行为。
在针对年轻人开展了15年的预防活动后，学生们有令人满意的知识水平，并采取了相对安全的行为。然而，男孩、年龄较小的学生、宗教意识较强的学生以及成绩优异和成绩较差的学生需要通过适当干预获得更密集和系统的信息。
