TY - JOUR
T1 - Educational intervention among barbers to improve their knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS
T2 - A pilot study from a South Asian country
AU - Krishanani, Mukesh Kumar
AU - Ali, Faridah Amir
AU - Khuwaja, Ali Khan
AU - Qidwai, Waris
AU - Ali, Badar Sabir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© International Centre For Diarrhoeal, Disease Research, Bangladesh.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - One of the Millennium Development Goals is to combat HIV, the burden of which continues to increase in developing countries, like Pakistan. The prevalence is high among the high-risk population, and the use of unsterilized surgical instruments, traditional straight razors, and blades adds to the spread of this disease. This study assesses the effect of an educational intervention on the knowledge of 70 barbers practising in a suburban community in Pakistan regarding HIV and its symptoms and transmission. At baseline, only 10% of the barbers reported that they had ever heard about HIV compared to 49% after the intervention. Similarly, 4% and 6% of them had good knowledge at baseline about symptoms and transmission of the disease, increasing to 39% and 43% respectively, after the intervention (p<0.001). The results of this educational intervention warrant consideration of activation of mass campaigns to increase public awareness about bloodborne diseases and to educate personnel who might harm the persons in their communities by unsafe practices.
AB - One of the Millennium Development Goals is to combat HIV, the burden of which continues to increase in developing countries, like Pakistan. The prevalence is high among the high-risk population, and the use of unsterilized surgical instruments, traditional straight razors, and blades adds to the spread of this disease. This study assesses the effect of an educational intervention on the knowledge of 70 barbers practising in a suburban community in Pakistan regarding HIV and its symptoms and transmission. At baseline, only 10% of the barbers reported that they had ever heard about HIV compared to 49% after the intervention. Similarly, 4% and 6% of them had good knowledge at baseline about symptoms and transmission of the disease, increasing to 39% and 43% respectively, after the intervention (p<0.001). The results of this educational intervention warrant consideration of activation of mass campaigns to increase public awareness about bloodborne diseases and to educate personnel who might harm the persons in their communities by unsafe practices.
KW - AIDS
KW - Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
KW - Barbers
KW - Educational intervention
KW - HIV
KW - Human immunodeficiency virus
KW - Pakistan
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907574560&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
C2 - 25395901
AN - SCOPUS:84907574560
SN - 1606-0997
VL - 32
SP - 386
EP - 390
JO - Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
JF - Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition
IS - 3
ER -