HIV Preventive Health Behaviour Among Nigerian Undergraduates: Evidence-based findings for program officers, policy makers and research based institutions - Softcover

Okosun, Thank-God

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3848400669 ISBN 13: 9783848400669

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Studies have shown that HIV/AIDS remains a major public health challenge worldwide and the adoption of preventive health behaviour holds the key to its control. Little is known, however, about the typology of preventive health behaviour adopted by undergraduates of the University of Ibadan against the disease condition. This study, therefore determined the pattern and types of HIV preventive health behaviour among undergraduates of the University. The study was cross-sectional in design. A two-stage sampling procedure was used to randomly select 400 students from the Faculties of Pharmacy, the Social Sciences, Arts and Dentistry out of the thirteen Faculties in the university. A validated questionnaire which assessed the students’ preventive health behaviour and the antecedent factors was used for data collection. The prevalence of the adoption of each of the types of HIV preventive health behaviour among the participants was low in spite of their general high level of knowledge of the disease. Health education strategies such as peer education, social marketing and advocacy are needed to promote the adoption of preventive health behaviour among young persons.

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About the Author:

Okosun Thank-God is a Public Health Expert with Masters of Public Health (MPH) Population and Reproductive Health from the University of Ibadan. This thesis focused on HIV preventive health behaviour of young persons in Nigeria.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3848400669
• ISBN 13: 9783848400669
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100