Knowledge of People Over 15 years old about Prophylaxis and transferring of AIDS and hepatitis B in Sanandaj

ABSTRACT This is a descriptive-analytic survey to evaluation the knowledge of women and men over 15 years old about prophylaxis and transferring of AIDS and hepatitis B in sanandaj in 1998. The purpose of this study was to determine knowledge of people over 15 years old about prophylaxis of AIDS and hepatitis B based on their age, job, and education. In this study 852 men and Women over 15 yr. were selected by cluster-randomized sampling, the method of data collection was questionnaire with 23 questions. Most of cases was women, married, graduated from high school, housewife and 15-24 years old. The most of them belived that the best way for prophylaxis is training the people. The most of them don't know the way of hepatitis B transfer and prophylaxis. Based on results there was significant relationship (P<0.0001) between knowledge about transfer and prophylaxis of AIDS and education, job and age also there was significant relationship (P<0.0001) between knowledge about transfer and prophylaxis of hepatitis B and education, job and age. It appears that partitioners individuals' knowledge about prophylaxis and transferring of AIDS and hepatitis B was low, therefore the health workers needs special attention to the training the of people.