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- Title
Knowledge of health students about prophylaxis pre and post exposure to HIV.
- Authors
Brandão Matos, Matheus Costa; Evangelista de Araújoa, Telma Maria; Luz Nunes Queiroz, Artur Acelino Francisco; de Tarso Moura Borges, Paulo
- Abstract
Objective: To evaluate students’ knowledge of nursing and medical courses at a public university on prophylaxis before and after exposure to HIV/AIDS. Method: cross-sectional study, carried out with nursing and medical students (n = 167). In order to explain the effect of variables on knowledge, the Multinomial Logistic Regression was used. Results: Participants had a mean of 23.03 years, female (56.5%), unmarried (64.3%), and heterosexual (86.3%). The level of knowledge demonstrated was mostly medium (49.4%), and only 28.6% showed a high knowledge about the subject. The multivariate analysis showed that the course (p = 0.03) and age (p = 0.01) were associated with a higher level of knowledge. Conclusions: Nursing and medical students possess knowledge considered as average about HIV preventive prophylaxis, thus it is up to the health education institutions to provide subsidies for a better training of students, treating the theme as a transversal subject in their training.
- Publication
Revista Gaucha de Enfermagem, 2021, Vol 42, p1
- ISSN
0102-6933
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/1983-1447.2021.20190445