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J.Health Sci., 51(2), 115-121, 2005
Effects of a Brief Health Education Intervention on
AIDS among Young Chinese Adults in Hong Kong
Abu Saleh Mohammad Abdullah,*,
a Richard
Fielding,a Anthony Johnson
Hedley,a and Sunita Mahtani Stewartb
aDepartment of Community Medicine, the University of Hong Kong, 5/F William M.W. Mong Block, Faculty of Medicine Building, 21
Sassoon Road, Hong Kong and bDepartment of Psychiatry, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry
Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75390, U.S.A.
To examine the effects of an HIV/AIDS educational intervention among young Chinese adults in Hong Kong,
we carried out a study among a group of 118 young subjects (most aged 18-25 years). Subjects were recruited from
a service force and were assigned to intervention and control groups. Respondents in the intervention group attended
one 90-min educational session. At baseline there was no significant difference in different variables among
participants in the study. At follow-up four months later, participants in the HIV/AIDS intervention group had increased
knowledge of AIDS, more positive attitudes towards AIDS prevention, held higher perception of sexually
transmitted disease (STD) risk, showed higher intention to use condoms with regular and irregular partners and talked more
with friends about safer sex. Respondents in the control group had more positive attitudes towards AIDS prevention
and held higher perception of illness risk with no other significant changes. This first intervention study among
young Chinese adults in Hong Kong identified the usefulness and limitations of an HIV/AIDS educational program.
The effectiveness and limitation of the current intervention serve as an initial attempt in conducting similar studies
in the future targeting the Chinese youth.
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