[Human immunodeficiency virus vulnerabilities and related health risk behaviors of out-of-school children of the floating population in Beijing].
OBJECTIVE
To explore the vulnerability and related risk behaviors of the out-of-school adolescents floating with their parents from country to city.


METHODS
From September to October in 2005, 260 out-of-school adolescents who were 14 to 20 years old were investigated in our study.


RESULTS
The out-of-school adolescents lacked of HIV/AIDS knowledge and life skills, and their psychosocial competence was at a lower level. The adolescents were open-minded to sex, but they were not conscious of using condoms. Attitude towards people with HIV was positively correlated with a well-being family, harmonious relation between their parents, a stable job, knowledge, life skills and psychosocial competence (such as in control of emotions, empathy). Their life skills were positively correlated with their mothers' schooling satisfaction with family income, a stable job, high scores of knowledge, social responsibility,and interpersonal relationship. Competence of HIV/AIDS prevention was positively correlated with schooling, a stable job, knowledge, life skills, and psychosocial competence.


CONCLUSIONS
Out-of-school adolescents were vulnerable to HIV/AIDS. Individual level intervention combined with structural intervention could effectively reduce their vulnerability. Effective and feasible health education approach to enhance their life skills and psychosocial competence was a key point to health education on HIV/AIDS prevention.
Ma
Ying-hua
YH
Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing 100083, China. yinghuama@hsc.pku.edu.cn
Ding
Su-qin
SQ
Wang
Chao
C
D000293:Adolescent; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D035862:Vulnerable Populations; D055815:Young Adult