Anwuri George Chidi, Dunn Michael S, Schulze Frederick
The Center for Global Health and Health Policy, Global Health and Education Projects, Inc. P.O. Box 234, Riverdale, MD 20738, U.S.A.
Department of Health Sciences, Coastal Carolina University, P.O. Box 261954, Conway, South Carolina 29528-6054, U.S.A.
Int J MCH AIDS. 2017;6(2):109-120. doi: 10.21106/ijma.212.
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) testing remains the best public health preventive strategy in the fight against HIV/AIDS. We assessed the factors that determined voluntary counseling and screening/testing for HIV among college students.
In this cross-sectional study, a purposeful sample of 189 college students was analyzed using three health belief model (HBM) variables as the theoretical framework.
All the HBM variables were positively associated with intention to test for HIV, and with perceived benefits ( = 0.023) having the strongest association.
The results of this study underscore the important factors that predict intention to screen for HIV among college students. Understanding the factors that influence intention for HIV testing is useful in formulating public health policies and in the design of programs and interventions aimed at increasing the number of people who get tested for HIV.
人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）检测仍然是抗击HIV/艾滋病的最佳公共卫生预防策略。我们评估了决定大学生自愿咨询和HIV筛查/检测的因素。
在这项横断面研究中，以189名大学生为目标样本，采用三个健康信念模型（HBM）变量作为理论框架进行分析。
所有HBM变量均与HIV检测意愿呈正相关，其中感知收益（=0.023）的相关性最强。
本研究结果强调了预测大学生HIV筛查意愿的重要因素。了解影响HIV检测意愿的因素有助于制定公共卫生政策以及设计旨在增加接受HIV检测人数的项目和干预措施。
