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Acta Médica Peruana

On-line version ISSN 1728-5917

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BACA-SANCHEZ, Juan; HIDALGO-PALACIOS, Claudia; LEON-JIMENEZ, Franco  and  MALCA-TELLO, Nancy. Knowledge, perceptions, and practices related to HIV/ AIDS in adolescents from a district in Lambayeque-Peru, 2015. Acta méd. Peru [online]. 2019, vol.36, n.1, pp.38-45. ISSN 1728-5917.

Objective: To describe knowledge, perceptions, and practices related to HIV / AIDS in adolescents from a district in Lambayeque during 2015. Materials and methods: This is a cross-sectional survey. We interviewed 677 students from public and private schools from Lambayeque, who were selected using a multi-stage complex cluster sampling. A structured questionnaire was administered. Associations between sociodemographic variables, knowledge and practices were explored. Results: Three hundred and fifty-three (52.14%) females and 324 (47.86%) males were interviewed. Thirty-seven (37.37%) were from third year in high school, 32.64% were from fourth year, and 29.99% were from fifth year. Nearly two thirds of all subjects (61.30%) were students from public schools; 483 (71.34%) declared their knowledge on HIV/AIDS was intermediate level. The most frequently reported information source was school classes (68.09%); with respect to knowledge, the infection routes most frequently reported were: sex with an infected person (88.77%) and blood transfusions (80.95%). Students from public schools declared their mostly used information source was the Web (p= 0.019), and they declared finding out that sexual contact with an infected person was a form of infection (p= 0.007) and that homosexual relationships increase the risk of infection (p= 0.023). Adolescents from private schools declared their most frequent information source was TV (p= 0.081), and they declared that having one sex partner (p= 0.013) and abstinence (p= 0.004) decreased the risk of HIV transmission. Males reported there is more risk for acquiring this infection thorough sex contact with prostitutes and homosexual men (p= 0.001 for both variables, respectively). Conclusions: School lectures and the Web are important information sources on HIV-AIDS. Public school adolescents have greater knowledge on risk factors, and those from private schools show better understanding on preventive measures against HIV-AIDS.

Keywords : Knowledge; Perception; Social Behavior; HIV-AIDS; Adolescent Behavior.

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