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Introduction: What health professional students know of AIDS and their attitudes towards PLWA enrich our knowledge in assuring quality of care administered to AIDS patients.
Objectives: This study was designed to assess 1) What Nigerian students in various health disciplines know about AIDS and how they behave towards PLWA. and 2) Determine the sociodemographic variables that could influence knowledge of AIDS and behaviour towards PLWA among students of the various health disciplines in a university in North- Eastern Nigeria.
Methods: This cross-sectional study involving student volunteers (n=644) in the last two years of their professional training drawn from six disciplines were surveyed using a two-part questionnaire. Section I of which elicited students’ sociodemographic and previous AIDS encounter information, and section II assessed knowledge and behaviour towards PLWA. Results: Students in surveyed health professions had an unsatisfactory level of knowledge on AIDS pathophysiology and their behaviour towards PLWA was negative. Gender, clinical year, religious affiliation, discipline, level of satisfaction with AIDS instructions, knowing a family member or another person with a diagnosis of AIDS and willingness to provide care for an AIDS patient influenced the students’ knowledge and behaviour.
Conclusion and Recommendation: The study revealed a real possibility for health professional students to hesitate to care for PLWA, or render uncoordinated or fragmented care at the time of their graduation. It suggests the need for intervention to include methodical and all inclusive clinical clerkship on HIV/AIDS and small group discussions with real life case scenerios involving PLWA while in training.
Keywords: Health professional students, AIDS Knowledge, Behaviour, patients living with AIDS (PLWA).
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Introduction: le savoir des étudiants médecins en matière du SIDA et leurs attitudes envers les Personnes Infectées du Sida enrichit notre connaissance dans la qualité des soins donnés aux patients du SIDA.
Objectifs: Cette étude visait à évaluer 1) la connaissance des étudiants nigérians de différentes filières de santé en matière du SIDA et leur comportement envers les Personnes Vivant avec Le Sida. et 2) à déterminer les variable sociodémographique qui pourraient influencer la connaissance en matière du SIDA et le comportement envers les Personnes Vivant Avec le SIDA parmi les étudiants de différentes filières de santé au sein d’une université du Nord-Est du Nigeria.
Méthodes: Cette étude à caractère de sondage impliquant des étudiants volontaires (n=644) au cours des deux dernières années de leur formation professionnelle tirés de six filière a été effectué à l’aide d’un questionnaire à deux parties. La première partie recensait les informations sociodémographiques des étudiants et leurs expériences antérieures concernant le SIDA et la deuxième partie évaluait la connaissance et le comportement envers les Personnes Vivant Avec le Sida.
Résultats: Les étudiants des professions de santé sondées disposaient d’un niveau insatisfaisant de connaissance sur la pathophysiologie du SIDA et présentaient un comportement négatif envers les Personnes Atteintes du Sida. La connaissance et le comportement des étudiants étaient influencés par le sexe, l’année clinique, la confession religieuse, la filière, le niveau de satisfaction
avec les instructions sur le SIDA, connaître un parent ou une autre personne diagnostiqué du SIDA et la volonté de prendre soin d’un malade du SIDA.
Conclusion et Récommendation: Cette étude met à jour une veritable possibilité chez les étudiants médecins à hésiter à prendre soin des Personnes Malade du Sida, ou à fournir des soins mal-coordonnés ou fragmentés au moment de leur remise de diplôme. Ceci suggère le besoin d’une intervention y compris des fonctions méthodique et cliniques tout inclut d’internat sur le VIH/SIDA et des forums de discussions avec des cas réels qui fait intervenir des Personnes Malades du Sida au cours de la formation.
Correspondence: Dr. Unyime S Jasper, Department of Medical Rehabilitation (Physiotherapy), University of Maiduguri, Maiduguri, Nigeria. E-mail:jaspersnd64@gmail.com
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