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Assessment of Socio-Demographic Factors with Knowledge and Attitiudes of Pakistani Married Women (15-49 Years) towards HIV/AIDS Transmission


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1 Public Health, Department of Public Health, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
2 Hospital Pharmacist, Patient Welfare Association, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
3 Regional Training Institute, Population Welfare Department Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
 

Introduction: Despite of improvement in knowledge, diagnostics, prevention and treatment; HIV/AIDS is highly discriminated and stigmatized worldwide. Objective: To determine the association of various socio-demographic characteristics with knowledge and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS transmission among married women. Study Design and Setting: For this purpose, secondary analysis was done using data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014. Materials and Methods: Study design was cross-sectional. Only ever married women were included as participants of the study. Result: Significant associations were found between sociodemographic factors i.e., women age (p-value = 0.001), women education (p-value = 0.001), wealth index (p-value = 0.001), access to media (p-value = 0.001), type of place of residence (p-value = 0.01), marital status (p-value<0.05) with knowledge and attitudes of women towards HIV/AIDS. Conclusion: Despite of having high odds of appropriate knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission; attitudes of Pakistani women towards HIV/AIDS transmission were still negative. Programs need to be designed in order to reverse the negative attitudes of community towards HIV/AIDS transmission.


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Knowledge, Attitude, Married Women, HIV/AIDS, MICS.
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Authors

Rukiya Tariq
Public Health, Department of Public Health, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan
Quratulain Bashir
Hospital Pharmacist, Patient Welfare Association, Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan
Tanzeel Ul Rahman
Regional Training Institute, Population Welfare Department Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract


Introduction: Despite of improvement in knowledge, diagnostics, prevention and treatment; HIV/AIDS is highly discriminated and stigmatized worldwide. Objective: To determine the association of various socio-demographic characteristics with knowledge and attitudes towards HIV/AIDS transmission among married women. Study Design and Setting: For this purpose, secondary analysis was done using data from Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2014. Materials and Methods: Study design was cross-sectional. Only ever married women were included as participants of the study. Result: Significant associations were found between sociodemographic factors i.e., women age (p-value = 0.001), women education (p-value = 0.001), wealth index (p-value = 0.001), access to media (p-value = 0.001), type of place of residence (p-value = 0.01), marital status (p-value<0.05) with knowledge and attitudes of women towards HIV/AIDS. Conclusion: Despite of having high odds of appropriate knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission; attitudes of Pakistani women towards HIV/AIDS transmission were still negative. Programs need to be designed in order to reverse the negative attitudes of community towards HIV/AIDS transmission.


Keywords


Knowledge, Attitude, Married Women, HIV/AIDS, MICS.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18311/jeoh%2F0%2F22518