PMID- 20113151
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20100504
LR  - 20100208
IS  - 1557-7449 (Electronic)
IS  - 1087-2914 (Linking)
VI  - 24
IP  - 1
DP  - 2010 Jan
TI  - Relationship between HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitude among student nurses: a 
      structural equation model.
PG  - 59-63
LID - 10.1089/apc.2009.0190 [doi]
AB  - With the rising incidence of HIV/AIDS in China, nurses will increasingly be 
      caring for patients with HIV/AIDS. Thus, it is necessary that they have enough 
      knowledge to reduce the risk of occupationally acquired HIV infection and that 
      they change their attitude to care for HIV/AIDS patients. The objective of this 
      study is to explore the relationship between student nurses' HIV/AIDS knowledge 
      and their attitude using a structural equation model (SEM). A cross-sectional 
      survey was conducted in January 2008 among 528 student nurses at the technical 
      secondary school of the China Medical University. An SEM is proposed to determine 
      the direction and magnitude of the interdependent effects between the latent 
      factors. The SEM was built using LISREL version 8.5. The measurement properties 
      of the latent factors underlying the questionnaire were based on a confirmatory 
      factor analysis (CFA). Our results as following, HIV/AIDS knowledge and attitude 
      may be measured by seven underlying constructs, namely, preventive knowledge, 
      knowledge of transmission routes, specialty knowledge, knowledge of 
      nontransmission routes, positive attitude toward HIV/AIDS, negative attitude 
      toward HIV/AIDS, and occupational attitude. The SEM fits the data well. The 
      interdependent relationships between these constructs identified the factors of 
      preventive knowledge, specialty knowledge, and attitude toward HIV/AIDS as having 
      both direct and indirect effects on occupational attitude. In conclusions, our 
      results represent an initial effort to assess the relationship between student 
      nurses' HIV/AIDS knowledge and their attitude toward the disease. CFA and SEM 
      analysis have demonstrated their usefulness in evaluating multifactor complex 
      constructs.
FAU - Qu, Bo
AU  - Qu B
AD  - School of Public Health, China Medical University, 92 North Second Road, 
      Shenyang, P.R. China. qubo5555@163.com
FAU - Zhang, Yang
AU  - Zhang Y
FAU - Guo, Haiqiang
AU  - Guo H
FAU - Sun, Gao
AU  - Sun G
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - AIDS Patient Care STDS
JT  - AIDS patient care and STDs
JID - 9607225
SB  - IM
MH  - Attitude of Health Personnel
MH  - Attitude to Health
MH  - China/epidemiology
MH  - Clinical Competence
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - HIV Infections/*epidemiology
MH  - *Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - Students, Nursing/*psychology
EDAT- 2010/02/02 06:00
MHDA- 2010/05/05 06:00
CRDT- 2010/02/02 06:00
PHST- 2010/02/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/02/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2010/05/05 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1089/apc.2009.0190 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2010 Jan;24(1):59-63. doi: 10.1089/apc.2009.0190.