AEGiS-14IAC: Evaluation of training of secondary school leaders in a public school from Venado Tuerto after four years.

14th International AIDS Conference


Barcelona, Spain - July 7-12, 2002

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Evaluation of training of secondary school leaders in a public school from Venado Tuerto after four years.

Int Conf AIDS 2002 Jul 7-12; 14:(abstract no. D11116)

Giagnorio J, Pedrola M, Giagnorio M, Azcona N
Municipal Program for AIDS Prevention (PREVENSIDA), Venado Tuerto, Argentina

BACKGROUND: During the last six years, the Municipal Program for AIDS Prevention has developed activities in all public secondary schools from Venado Tuerto. In this specific area the "Training of Juvenile Leaders" project was developed. OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the changes of attitudes of secondary school students from a public school in which the "Training of Juvenile Leaders" project was carried out during the last four years.

METHODOLOGY: A multiple-choice, auto-administered, voluntary and anonymous survey was done to all the students from the three highest classes in the E.E.M. N? 447. These surveys were then compared to the ones done in a similar population from the same institution at the beginning of 1997 and previous to the work in that school. The statistical method used was T of student.

RESULTS: We will call the population surveyed four years ago Group A (n = 88) and the actual population Group B (n = 102). The distribution by sex (Fem.A = 63.8%; Fem.B = 61.2%) and the average age (A=17.01y DS 1.52; B = 16.80y DS 1.01). There were not significant differences in reference to information but we do have to underline the increase in the use of condom shown by the adolescents (Group A= 27.30%; Group B= 37.50% p=0.001).

CONCLUSIONS: We see that the work done by these young people produced a positive change upon their peers. Keeping in mind the short time that has passed; we believe we should go on insisting in this kind of actions and monitor them to determine bigger changes.

Keywords: AEGIS, Schools, Condoms, Health Education, Data Collection, Sex Education, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, Time, Attitude, Students, Curriculum, Adolescent Psychology, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent, Human, Adolescence, education, methodsKWDaegis,schools,condoms,healtheducation,datacollection,sexeducation,acquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome,time,attitude,students,curriculum,adolescentpsychology,adolescentbehavior,adolescent,human,adolescence,education,methods

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