[A survey on AIDS discrimination among medical college students].
OBJECTIVE
To understand the related knowledge, discrimination attitudes toward HIV/AIDS among medical college students, and to provide scientific evidence for further HIV/AIDS anti-discrimination intervention.


METHODS
By means of stratified cluster sampling to classes, 2844 undergraduate students were randomly selected from medical colleges. A self-designed and self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted, and SPSS 13.0 software was used for data analysis.


RESULTS
2501 valid questionnaires had been collected. The overall HIV/AIDS knowledge coverage rate of the respondents was 73.1% (1828/2501); The HIV/AIDS discrimination rates in different questions were varying, the discrimination rate of infected with AIDS by bad sex and sharing needles was 83.1% (2078/2501) and 77.7% (1943/2501) respectively, the discrimination rates in term of contacting with HIV patients and their daily necessities, sharing desks, personal social were all exceeding 40%.


CONCLUSIONS
The medical students held serious discrimination attitudes to HIV infected persons and patients; it is necessary to strengthen anti-discrimination education about HIV/AIDS among medical students.
AIDS/STD Control and Prevention Department, Jiangxi Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanchang 330029, China.
Jia-hong
JH
Liu
Hong-ying
HY
Jiang
Hong
H
Chen
Qing-hua
QH
Liao
Jun
J
Fu
Fei-bao
FB
Lu
Wei-xin
WX
Liu
Yue
Y
Li
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011287:Prejudice; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult