title: [High school students and their knowledge about HIV/AIDS: what has changed in ten years?].
abstract: An exploratory, descriptive, comparative study with a quantitative approach, whose objective was to compare the knowledge of high school students from two public state schools of Peruíbe, SP, Brazil, about Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), in the years 1999 and 2010. In both of these years, the predominant population studied was female students, under 18 years old, unmarried and white. A statistically significant difference was found with respect to knowledge about HIV/AIDS among the groups studied. It was found that even with ten-year interval between the studies, the two groups of students did not consider themselves vulnerable to HIV and presented doubts as to the correct knowledge about the topic, which indicates the need for a continuous approach with young adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Enfermeira. Doutora em Ciências pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Enfermagem do Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil. lucianefdoval@gmail.com
authors.forename: Luciane Ferreira
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: do Val
authors.affiliation: Enfermeiro Graduado pela Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: José Augusto
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: deSouza Silva
authors.affiliation: Enfermeira Graduada pela Facultad de Enfermeria da Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Bogotá, Colômbia.
authors.forename: Laura Alarcón
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Rincón
authors.affiliation: Enfermeira Graduada pela Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Renata Holanda dos Anjos
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.affiliation: Matemático. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Ricardo Luis
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Barbosa
authors.affiliation: Enfermeira. Professora Livre - Docente do Departamento de Enfermagem em Saúde Coletiva da Escola de Enfermagem da Universidade de São Paulo. São Paulo, SP, Brasil.
authors.forename: Lucia Yazuko Izumi
authors.initials: LY
authors.lastname: Nichiata
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult