Knowledge and Attitude of students’ in Social Sciences Faculty with People Infected with HIV

Abstract

The study of knowledge and attitude of students’ in social sciences faculty with people infected with HIV, the purposes of the study are 1) to explore knowledge and moral perspective of students with those who were infected with HIV and 2) to study the behavior of students in a careful of HIV infection. This study is Survey research by using the questionnaire. The sample group is 149 students of social sciences faculty at Mahamakut Buddhist University. The data were analyzed as descriptive statistics program by distributing frequency, percentage, mean () and standard deviation (S.D.) The study results were shown as follows:

The first group of the sample is the third year students of political science, unmarried male, and 21 years old up to 59.1 percent, the second group is the social administration students up to 32.2 percentages and the third group is sociology and anthropology up to 8.7 percent. Furthermore, students’ knowledge of HIV is on moderate revel as 59.73 percent, low revel as 30.21 percent and high level as 10.06 percent. Moreover, Students’ attitude toward HIV/AIDS is in moderate revel of average as 2.95. Students’ behavior of HIV/AIDS infection protection found that 51 percent use condoms and 49.0 percent never used condoms. 26.2 use condoms all the time, 24.8 percent never change partners, 75.8 percent change partners sometimes, 12.8 percent change partners often, 11.4 percent did not specify the reasons of using condoms, 18.8 percent believe that their partners and themselves are safe, 17.4 percent sexual pleasure reducing and 16.1 percent respectively.