Educational needs of health care workers regarding AIDS.
Int Conf AIDS 2000 Jul 9-14; 13:(abstract no. ThOrB755)
Abdollahzadeh F, Moghadasian S F. Abdollahzadeh, University of Tabriz, Faculty of Nursing and, Midwifery Medical Science, PO Box 1745-347, Tabriz, Iran, Tel.: +98 41 477 379, Fax: +98 41 496 969
Medical Society considers the eradication of small pox and poliomyelitis as its greatest achievement and the incidence of AIDS as its most catastrophic failure in the last half of the 20th century. This disease is not a actual problem in our country on account of the preveiling religious beliefs and moral values. However, it exists as a potential health problem in asmuchas around. Approximately 1600 cases afflicted with AIDS have been reported from 1988 to the end of 1998, most of which occurred following the transfusion of HIV contaminated blood or blood products. At present, the most important and the only feasible program to combat AIDS is the education of the public with the objective of increasing their awareness, especially of those responsible for the management and treatment of AIDS patients. One of the groups in society which is highly at risk for AIDS, comprises health care workers. The educational needs of these workers should be determined and specified in order that effective steps toward designing the relevant educational programs may be taken. This research is a descriptive-analytic study which has been performed to investigate the educational needs of health care workers working in teaching hospitals. The method for collecting data was through questionaire which consists of 4 parts: 1) Demographic data 2) educational needs about nature of the disease, 3-4) transmission and prevention of the disease. 150 health care workers were chosen through purposive sampling. In order to achieve the research objectives, descriptive and inferential statistics have been used. The findings of this study in relation with affective needs about AIDS showed that more than 90% of the subjects felt that they needed education. The findings in relation with cognitive needs on AIDS showed that the most subjects 28% had low level of educational needs and approximately 36% medium level and 36% of high level educational needs. According to this study findings some factors such as age, field and level of education had significant effects on the subjects educational needs. The responsibility of providing education rests with the nurse but it should not be carried out on the basis of the subjective assumptions of the nurse. Rather it should be based on the sound principles of the learning and teaching process and designed in accord with the assessment of the educational needs of the individual, group or community.
Keywords: AEGIS, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Health Personnel, Health Services Needs and Demand, HIV Infections, Health Education, Curriculum, Nurses, Incidence, Needs Assessment, Teaching, Attitude of Health Personnel, Education, Continuing, Education, Nursing, Education, Nursing, Baccalaureate, Human, education
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