The effectiveness of aids education in the second year of male craftman certificate level students at Samut Prakan technical college

Abstract

The objective of this study is to test the effectiveness of AIDS education in male craftsman certificate level students at Samutprakan technical college. The score and change of knowledge, attitude and the rate of the risky sexual behavior were the measurement outcome after AIDS education. This was a field trial (experimental) design in a total of 413 sampled students. The sampled students were stratified according to shifts (morning and afternoon). The convenience sampling was used. The last unit of sampling was class-room. During the first six months of this study, time was divided into 2 periods. The first period, the experimental group (afternoon shift students) received AIDS education by the college health teacher who had clear idea and agreed with objective of education as defined by the researcher while the control group, (morning shift students) were exposed to the standard classroom education. During the second period, the morning shift students did not receive any formal education about AIDS while the afternoon shift students discontinued the AIDS education programme. The same self-reported questionnaire was used at pretest and both post-test: i.e. at the end of the first and the second periods. This questionnaire did not have the students’ name, classroom, number and was carried in envelops during distribution to and recover from the students. The time required to fill up the questionnaire was thirty minutes. The results showed that at the pretest, there was no significant difference in the knowledge, attitude and rate of risky sexual behavior of HIV infection between the experimental and control group. After the experimental group received the AIDS education programme, there was a statistical significant increase in the level of knowledge of the students who were the experiment group. In addition when the education was withdraw after the experimental period, there was a sustainability of knowledge of the students. The results showed that for every test of both shifts except the first post-test of the afternoon shift there were the positive correlations. However, it was not possible to show a statistical significant reduction in the rate of the risky sexual behavior leading HIV infection.