Journal of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences

  B ackground and Objectives: Education is one of the best methods of to preventing AIDS identifying learners’ information resources are necessary to design effective training programs . This study was done to determine the non- medical students’ information sources and ways of preventing HIV transmission .

  Materials and Methods: This Cross-sectional study was done on 384 non medical students by sampling method. Data was collected based on Researcher made questionnaire in three sections: first demographic characteristic , questions about knowledge (20 questions) and the third section was devoted to questions about information sources . Data was analyzed by Chi square and Mann-Whitney tests.

  Results: The mean knowledge score of participants was 50.4±4. Ten point four percent of participants had medium knowledge and 89.6% of them had good knowledge . 63.7 % of students used television as their main source of information, and only in 16 % of the students their families were the most important sources of information . In this study the relationship between source use and knowledge of students was significant (p<0.05).

  Conclusion: This study indicates that the national media educational content about AIDS education should become richer considering the fact that television discussing issues about AIDS prevention and transmission on television is limited so it is recommended that students be encouraged to use a combination of other sources. In addition it is suggested that the Educational content about " prevention of HIV transmission " be added to the curriculm of all the students.

  Key words: AIDS, Information Source, Non-Medical Students

  Funding: This research was funded by Rafsanjan university of medical sciences approved the study.

  Conflict of Interest: None declared.

  Ethical approval: The Ethics Committee of Rafsanjan university of medical sciences approved the study

  How to cite this article : Lotfi pur Rafsanjani SM, Ravari A, Rezaeian M, Akbarinasab J . Sources of Information, About Aids Transmission and Prevention in Non Medical students in Rafsanjan (2011) . J Rafsanjan Univ Med Scie 2012 12(1): 47-56. [Farsi]