Introduction and Objectives: AIDS is the acquired syndrome of immunity damage caused by body immunity damaging virus . By one time infection people will be infected for all of their lives and probably will miss the chance of living because of disease seeking the opportunities and using the weakness of the body immunity system . Since there is no vaccination , medication or serum for treating AIDS and there has been no step further than controlling stage , acknowledgment of people especially teenagers about the ways of infection and going through religious beliefs is the only way to prevent it . for this target there has been a study about the effects of education and knowledge and view of senior students in Tehran high schools .
Materials & Methods: The present study is a experimental research and the studied community were all high school girls of Tehran . In order to determine the mass of the sample there was a primary study and the number of samples was determined the way it counted present the studied community . The samples were 3200 high school girls chosen based on interfering random system. The data source were the questionnaires which were completed 15 days before and after the education .
Results: Achievements showed that there is a meaningful discrepancy between the level of knowledge before and after the acknowledgment (z=-7/14, p<0.05). The acknowledgment also showed to make meaningful difference in the statistics (z= -3.426 , p<0.05) . According the results of the study it was brought up that the majority of the students had a medium knowledge about AIDS and the source of this knowledge for majority of the samples (81%) were the public medias .
Conclusion: The results of the study generally showed that for most of the students there is a low knowledge of AIDS . And their negative attitude toward the disease implicated the importance of public medias and modification of the attitude of public toward the disease .
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