• AIDS Attitude in First Year Students with Having Sex Experience: A Cross Sectional Study
  • Meisam Akhlaghdoust,1,*
    1. Pars Advanced and Minimally Invasive Medical Manners Research Center, Pars Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran


  • Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate attitudes of the students of Medical Sciences and Technical Sciences University about AIDS/HIV.
  • Methods: his cross-sectional study performed on 950 first-year Medical Sciences students and first-year Technical Sciences students between May 2017 and June 2018, in Tehran, Iran, using census-sampling method to fill out the International AIDS Questionnaire–Persian version (IAQ-P). SPSS version 21, and Chi-square test and nonparametric tests used to analyze the data.
  • Results: There was a significant difference in the mean AIDS attitudes between two groups (P <0.001). Confounding effect of age, gender, and marital status had a significant effect on students' AIDS attitude between the different groups, by using regression models (P <0.001).
  • Conclusion: Due to the increase in sexual activity between students and young people, AIDS attitude and awareness does not fit into it. Need to improve the attitude of AIDS in developing countries is strictly necessary.
  • Keywords: Attitude, HIV, AIDS, Students, Sex