Knowledge Attitudes Beliefs and Practices Regarding HIV Among Teenagers in French Guiana (CAPADO)

Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV

Treatments: Other: observational

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02903745

capado

Details and patient eligibility

About

French Guiana is the French territory where the prevalence of HIV is highest. in order to determine the knowledge attitudes, beliefs, and practices among the target group of teenagers attending the public school system a survey was conducted in 2011. schools and classrooms were randomly selected, and a structured questionnaire was administered. Descriptive statistics were obtained and multivariate logistic regression was used to determine predictors of main outcomes such as age at first sex.

the results will be used to guide prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections though the school system.

Enrollment: 1,603 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 15 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• attending the public school system of french guiana

Exclusion criteria

• refusal to participate