Effectiveness of an Integrated HIV/AIDS Education Program

Abstract

The present paper studied the effectiveness of an integrated HIV /AIDS education program (iHAEP) carried out on students of std. VII and VIII from Mumbai .The HIV/AIDS education program used English and Math as a medium to sensitize the students in their early teens to the issue of HIV/AIDS. In this investigation, effectiveness of iHAEP is as measured by the awareness and attitude of students towards the HIV/AIDS issue, students’ behaviour intentions and students’ general reaction to the HIV/AIDS education program. The Quasi-Experimental Pre-Test Post Test Non-equivalent Group Design was used for the study. The Quantitative Analysis, used to study the level of awareness and attitude of students to HIV/AIDS, employed descriptive analysis of the data  by finding the measures of central tendency, std. deviation, skewness and kurtosis and the inferential techniques used for testing the hypotheses in the study are parametric tests such as t – Test and Split Plot ANNOVA. The Qualitative

Analysis was employed to study the students’ behaviour intentions and students’ general reaction to the iHAEP. The findings of the study and the overall experience during the intervention makes the researcher hopeful that such initiatives will serve as an impetus to the teaching fraternity to take up health education projects in schools and colleges.