KIẾN THỨC, THÁI ĐỘ TRONG PHÒNG CHỐNG VÀ CHĂM SÓC NGƯỜI NHIỄM HIV/AIDS CỦA SINH VIÊN ĐIỀU DƯỠNG TRƯỜNG ĐẠI HỌC Y HÀ NỘI VÀ THÀNH TÂY NĂM 2017

Abstract

Background: Nursing students are expected to have certain knowledge and attitudes about caring for people with HIV/AIDS because they will play an important role in care for those patients in later career. However, in Vietnam, limit is known about their knowledge and attitudes about this issue. Objectives: (1) Describe knowledge and attitudes about and care for patient with HIV/AIDS among students of 3^rd and 4^th year at Hanoi Medical University and Thanh Tay University in 2017; (1) Identify some factors related to subjects knowledge of care for patients with HIV/AIDS and their attitudes. Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was used. Results: Knowledge of prevention and care of HIV / AIDS patients among nursing students in the 3rd and 4th years at the two universities was not high (63%), of which the rate of students at Hanoi Medical University was 80.1%, and Thanh Tay University was 41.2%. The average score on HIV / AIDS knowledge of students of the two universities was 20±3.2, of which the Hanoi Medical University (21.6 ± 2.5) was higher than the average score of students of Thanh Tay University (18.4 ± 3.8). Regarding the student’s attitudes: up to 15.5% of students were shunned and blamed people with HIV/AIDS; 9.1% of students agreed / strongly agreed that “drug users deserve infecting HIV”; and students had a “sympathetic” attitude towards “children / people infected with HIV due to blood transfusion than people infected with HIV due to drugs injection”, accounted for 34.3%. Conclusion: Nursing educated schools need to equip students with knowledge about prevention and care of people with HIV/AIDS, infection control related to HIV/AIDS, thereby reducing stigma towards people with HIV/AIDS.