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| Abstract #2027 - Poster 2 | ||||
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Session: 59.27: Poster 2 (Poster) on Tuesday in Chaired by Authors: Presenting Author: Mrs Kerstin Guffler - Marburg University , Germany |
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| Aim: Aim of the workshop was to improve students’ knowledge about HIV/AIDS and to increase their engagement in combatting HIV/AIDS in development countries sustainably. | ||||
| Method / Issue: The Study examines an HIV/AIDS workshop of the Kindernothilfe that was conducted with 9th and 10th grade students in two schools in Germany (N =127 students n = 52 students in school 1 n = 75 students in school 2). The workshop comprised one school lesson that addressed different issues related to HIV/AIDS (e.g., basic knowledge, path of infection, spread, relation between HIV/AIDS and poverty, combatting, and prevention) and the view of a theater play, which dealt with HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The workshop (including both sessions) took place between October and November 2012. Students were questioned in a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest-follow-up design. Thus, to contrast the developments in the workshop group (students that participated in the workshop) also 9th and 10th graders from two control schools (n = 33 students in school 3 n = 49 students in school 4) were questioned around the same time. Data were analyzed with repeated measures ANOVA using SPSS. | ||||
| Results / Comments: Results illustrated that those students who participated in the workshop increased in their basic knowledge about HIV/AIDS, their knowledge about the paths of infection, and their knowledge about HIV/AIDS treatment options in contrast to students that did not took part in the workshop. Moreover, workshop group students improved in their engagement to combat HIV/AIDS, meaning engaging in different forms of actions such as signing petitions. Another outcome of the workshop was related to people suffering HIV/AIDS and to South Africans. Thus, workshop group students had increased positive attitudes about people suffering HIV/AIDS and South Africans. | ||||
| Discussion: The findings recommend that even short workshops related to HIV/AIDS and related issues can have sustainable effects on German school children in 9th and 10th grade. Therefore, more such workshops are recommended. | ||||
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