Knowledge, attitude, and its influence on preventive behaviour towards HIV/AIDS among the bachelors of business administration and bio-technology students of Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences, Quetta, Pakistan

Abstract

This study was conducted to identify the level of knowledge, attitude, and its influence on preventive behavior among the students of BBA and Bio-TEC BUITMS Quetta, Pakistan. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire to 304 students in February 2009 and analyzed by SPSS V16. The age of students was between 18 tp 27 years of age. Around two thirds of them were males. There were 232 students in BBA and 72 from Bio-TEC. Majority of students lived with their family and the average monthly allowance was 2000 to 5000 rupee (US$25-50US$). The results indicated that only 3.9% or 12 students had high knowledge 43% or 131 had moderate knowledge and rest had low knowledge towards HIV/AIDS. The results attitude showed that there were 48.7% of respondents who had "neutral attitude", 10.9% of them had "positive attitude", while 40.5% had "negative attitude. In respect to preventive behavior 53.3 of the students have moderate level of practice 32.6 of students had high level, and only 14.1% of the students had very low level of the practice.