Societal Attitude Towards People Living With HIV/AIDS in Epe-Lagos, Nigeria
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Date
2010
Authors
Ademiju, P.U.
Ayodele, O.T.
Balogun, S.A.
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An international journal of education pratice ( The Beagle)
Abstract
The study investigated the attitude of people of different sex, age, profession, education and religion towards people living with HIV/AIDS. A total of one thousand, two hundred and forty participants were selected, using random sampling technique. Research instrument was a self-developed (20 items) validated questionnaire (r = 0.61). Data generated were analysed using descriptive statistics of frequency count and percentages for the research questions and inferential statistics oft-test and ANOVA for the five hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. Findings revealed that, generally, the society have positive attitude towards people with HIV/AIDS. It further revealed significant difference in mean attitude scores among people of different age groups (F21237=4.693 p<0.05); profession (F4I23= 12.252 p<0.05) educational background (F1I235=5.408 p<0.05) and religion (F3J236—13.00p<0.05). However, there was no significant difference in attitude scores between male and female (t-value =1.089 p>0.05). Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended that sex and AIDS education should be made available in religious institutions, homes, through the media and other public places
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HIV/AIDS , Education , Attitude , Religion , Profession , Sex education
Citation
Ademiju, P.U., Ayodele, O.T., & Balogun, S.A. (2010). Societal Attitude Towards People Living With HIV/AIDS in Epe-Lagos, Nigeria. An international journal of education pratice ( The Beagle).15-25