Nurses/Midwifery Trainees’Knowledge,Attitudes and Utilisation of HIV Testing/Counselling Service in the Central Region of Ghana

作     者：Francis Sambah Thomas Hormenu Bright Opoku Ahinkorah John Elvis Hagan Jr Thomas Schack 

作者机构：Department of HealthPhysical Education and RecreationUniversity of Cape CoastPrivate Mail BagCape CoastGhana Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research GroupFaculty of Psychology and Sport SciencesBielefeld UniversityBielefeld33501Germany 

出 版 物：《Journal of Health Science》 (健康科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2018年第6卷第6期

页      面：449-460页

学科分类：081203[工学-计算机应用技术] 08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

主　　题：HTC knowledge attitude utilisation nurses midwives Ghana. 

摘      要：Background and purpose:Despite HIV testing and counselling(HTC)being recognized as important elements of any effective prevention,detection,care,and management programmes across many societies as part of their primary health care package,it is surprising that research evidence on related issues,especially in developing countries like Ghana is *** study examined the extent of knowledge,attitudes and utilisation of HIV testing,and counselling services among trainee nurses of the public nursing and midwifery training colleges in the Central Region of *** and results:A descriptive cross-sectional design was employed to collect data from 375 nursing and midwifery students using multistage sampling *** showed that students’HTC knowledge was high(85%)whereas attitudes toward HTC were rated positive(95%).However,HTC utilisation was low(47%).Further results revealed a statistically significant difference between class level and HTC utilisation(χ2[1,N=375]=14.263,p=0.000).In contrast,no statistically significant differences in student nurses’class level and HTC knowledge(χ2[1,N=375]=0.624,p=0.475)as well as class level and attitudes toward HTC services(χ2[1,N=375]=2.334,p=0.158)were ***:The low HTC utilisation among the student nurses may potentially lead to missing opportunities for early diagnoses,care,treatment,and support services for primary,secondary or tertiary prevention *** of programmes by college authorities on the importance of HTC and the need for student nurses to utilise these services is crucial.