Survey of HIV/AIDS-related Knowledge, Attitude and Determinants in Urban Residents

Objectives: To provide references for HIV/AIDS-re-lated health education strategies through survey onHIV/AIDS-related knowledge, attitude and determi-nants of HIV/AIDS awareness. Methods: The study subjects were selected by ran-dom interception in a downtown street of Guangzhoucity on World AIDS Day-December 1,2002. The uni-form questionnaires were finished by means of self-administration. Results: Two hundred questionnaires were distrib-uted and 147 qualified questionnaires were collected.The results showed, the awareness rate of HIV/AIDS-related knowledge was 63.3%, and awareness rate oftransmission routes was 76.2%, whilst non-transmis-sion route was 60.5%; the awareness rate of trans-mission was 59.2%; the awareness rate of preventionwas 47.0%; the positive attitude to people living withHIV/AIDS was 65.6%. Multiple variable Logistic re-gression analysis showed the determinants of HIV/AIDS-related knowledge were education level, age,marital status and gender, of which people with highlevel of education, young age and the group of maleand married had better awareness of HIV/AIDS. Conclusion: Current HIV/AIDS-related knowledgeof urban residents is relativly low, especially for thenon-transmission route, hence further HIV/AIDS-re-lated education should be strengthened, especially fo-cusing on non-transmission route to eliminate dis-crimination over people living with HIV/AIDS.Further, education efforts also should be put on fe-male population, unmarried population and poorly edu-cated population.