“Knowledge, Attitude And Practice Towards Hiv/Aids Among Unimas Undergraduate Nursing Students”
Introduction: HIV is a severe infection that weakens the immune system, making individuals vulnerable to infections, neurological conditions, and rare cancers. In Malaysia, around 86,142 people live with HIV, with 68% receiving ART as of December 2022. The global HIV/AIDS crisis is a significa...
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
2024
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45778/1/MILCAH%20OTHNIEL.pdf http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/45778/ |
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| Summary: | Introduction: HIV is a severe infection that weakens the immune system, making individuals
vulnerable to infections, neurological conditions, and rare cancers. In Malaysia, around 86,142
people live with HIV, with 68% receiving ART as of December 2022. The global HIV/AIDS crisis
is a significant challenge, with 38 countries experiencing a rise in infections. The Malaysia Stigma
Evaluation Survey (MySES) found that 70.1% of respondents felt ashamed due to their HIV status
with almost half of the respondent experienced discrimination in the healthcare settings.
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice towards HIV/AIDS
among UNIMAS undergraduate nursing students and to examine the relationship between
knowledge, attitude and practice towards HIV/AIDS.
Method: A quantitative cross-sectional study of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice among
UNIMAS undergraduate nursing students. A total number of 168 participant were interviewed by
given a questionnaire adopted from Dellobelle et al. (2009) and responses were reviewed and
analyzed by using descriptive statistics.
Results: Overall knowledge of the nursing students was moderate. Most of the student did not
know that HIV-positive TB patients have no symptoms or signs of HIV disease (57.7%). Most
students believe that patients with HIV/AIDS should be treated with the same respect as any other
patient (51.2%). Around 97.0% of the student encourage people to get tested and counselled for
HIV/AIDS.
Conclusion: This study concludes that UNIMAS undergraduate nursing student have moderate
knowledge and practice towards HIV/AIDS and negative attitude. |
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