Borandegi Forogh, Rahmanian Fatemeh, Yazdanpanahi Zahra, Nematollahi Azar
Student Research Committee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
J Educ Health Promot. 2020 Jan 30;9:7. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_271_19. eCollection 2020.
The vulnerability of the youth to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and smoking is one of the most important public health issues around the world. Adequate knowledge about AIDS and smoking is a powerful tool for promoting positive attitudes and safe behaviors.
This study aimed to determine the effect of self-care education on AIDS and smoking on the level of adolescents' knowledge and health attitude.
This experimental study was conducted in the academic year of 2017-2018, and the participants were selected using randomized cluster sampling. These participants included 220 female students of the third grade of middle school in Isfahan (105 in the intervention group and 115 in the control group). Data were collected using a demographic questionnaire; a researcher-made questionnaire on knowledge about AIDS, knowledge about smoking, and attitudes toward smoking; and a standard questionnaire on students' attitude toward AIDS. After completing the pretest, the intervention group performed two training sessions and completed the posttest 1 month later. One month after completing the pretest, the control group completed the posttest and did not receive an intervention. Finally, the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, statistical tests, and statistical software SPSS version 22.
The results showed that despite the similarity between the two groups at the beginning of the study, after self-care education, the knowledge level of AIDS ( < 0.001) and attitude toward AIDS ( < 0.001) and the knowledge level of smoking ( < 0.001) and attitude toward smoking ( < 0.001) in the intervention group were significantly higher than the control group. In intragroup analysis, it was also observed that the difference between the scores before and after was only significant in the intervention group.
It seems that education can promote the level of knowledge and attitude of adolescents toward AIDS.
青少年易感染获得性免疫缺陷综合征（艾滋病）以及吸烟是全球最重要的公共卫生问题之一。对艾滋病和吸烟有充分的了解是促进积极态度和安全行为的有力工具。
本研究旨在确定自我护理教育对青少年艾滋病和吸烟知识水平及健康态度的影响。
本实验研究于2017 - 2018学年进行，采用随机整群抽样法选取参与者。这些参与者包括伊斯法罕市初中三年级的220名女学生（干预组105名，对照组115名）。通过人口统计学问卷、研究者自制的关于艾滋病知识、吸烟知识及吸烟态度的问卷以及学生对艾滋病态度的标准问卷收集数据。完成预测试后，干预组进行了两次培训课程，并在1个月后完成后测试。对照组在完成预测试1个月后完成后测试，未接受干预。最后，使用描述性统计、统计检验和统计软件SPSS 22版对数据进行分析。
结果显示，尽管两组在研究开始时相似，但经过自我护理教育后，干预组的艾滋病知识水平（<0.001）、对艾滋病的态度（<0.001）、吸烟知识水平（<0.001）和对吸烟的态度（<0.001）均显著高于对照组。在组内分析中，还观察到只有干预组前后得分存在显著差异。
教育似乎可以提高青少年对艾滋病的知识水平和态度。
