The performance of peer educators on HIV/AIDS prevention among high school students in Bangkok, Thailand
A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to assess the performance of peer educators on HIV/AIDS prevention among high school students in Bangkok, Thailand. There were 157 students in this study and data were collected from eight schools in Bangkok. 50.96% of the peer educators had high...
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Language: | English |
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2012
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Language: | English |
Summary: | A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted to assess the performance
of peer educators on HIV/AIDS prevention among high school students in
Bangkok, Thailand. There were 157 students in this study and data were collected
from eight schools in Bangkok.
50.96% of the peer educators had high performance for peer education on HIV/
AIDS prevention. More than 70% of them performed all kinds of roles for HIV/AIDS
prevention. The role which they performed the most was to facilitate students to think
about their ideas and attitudes (85.99%).
Significant associations were found between performance of peer educators and
duration of working, perception towards peer education, internal motivation, availability
of resources including place, time, training courses and number of training courses
attended, accessibility of resources including place, materials, budget and training courses,
and social support.
The results suggest the need to strategically start selecting and training peer
educators from secondary level, to help them form their opinions about peer education,
to apply criteria of internal motivation to selection of peer educators, to allocate
more time to conduct their activities, to improve accessibility of budget and
materials for them, and to strengthen social support for them in order to improve
their performance. |
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