What is the comparative effects of different health educational methods in educating adolescent college students related to HIV/AIDS?
: To compare the effectiveness of three health educational methods namely lecture, participatory teaching and written assignment method (pamphlet methods) in disseminating knowledge about HIV/AIDS.
Controlled-intervention study design.
Four degree colleges of Varanasi City.
First year graduate students. 221 in intervention and 192 in control groups.
student’s ‘t’ test.
Pre-intervention and post intervention mean knowledge scores in intervention and control groups were 25.88 and 26.52 respectively (statistically insignificant). Immediately after training the mean score in the intervention group increased significantly to 32.53 and after 3 months there was a marginal decline of 1.3 percent only. Overall increase in knowledge after 3 months was 24.03 and 7.7% in intervention and control groups respectively. In the three intervention groups increase in knowledge was 31.3, 23.6 and 20.3 percents respectively for lecture, participatory teaching and written assignment (pamphlet) groups. However, sustainability of the increased knowledge was 86.8, 94.8 and 105.9 percents respectively.
Intervention study, knowledge scoring, HIV/AIDS awareness
