"The Knowledge, Attitude and Expected Role of Muslim Students Towards HIV/AIDS the Case of four General Secondary Schools and one Informal Education Center in Addis Ababa"

Sherif, Abdulgefar (2007) "The Knowledge, Attitude and Expected Role of Muslim Students Towards HIV/AIDS the Case of four General Secondary Schools and one Informal Education Center in Addis Ababa". Masters thesis, Addis Ababa University.

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Abstract

The main purpo e of the study was to know the level of Muslim students knowledge, attitude, stigma and di crimination their under tanding of the Islamic approach to defend the spread of HIV and to investigate their understanding and commitment to the expected role as a Muslim. The next purpose was to compare madrasa and high school students knowledge, attitude and other variables too. For this purpose 303 students from high school (198) and madrasa (l05) respondents from Addis Ababa were selected. Mainly a questionnaire was employed to gather the required information from the subjects. Using independent sample t test the obtained data were analyzed and interpreted. As a result the following major findings were observed. Though both groups have good level of knowledge, high school students have significantly better than madrasa students with some limitation. In relation to attitude, stigma and discrimination, high school students were found to have favorable attitude and less stigmatic and discriminatory behavior towards the victims. While madrasa students' attitude was negative and they were more of stigmatic and discriminators. The variation was also significant at alpha 0.0] level. Regarding the Islamic approach to the prevention strategy both groups agree to the importance but madrasa students significantly better in their understanding and commitment to this approach. Finally their understanding to the expected role was assessed and high school students were found to be more responsible. The correlation coefficient showed that strong and positive relationship among variables with the exception of prevention strategy with the other variables and it was significant for all variables. Finally some important recommendations were forwarded so as to improve subjects (especially madrasa students) knowledge, attitude towards PLHA, orphans and the like. Out of this teaching the religious leaders, making repeated open discussion with both the clerics and madrasa students i required to improve their stigmatic behavior and unfavorable attitude. Enough attention shou ld be given to these groups so that they may help in the pr0gess of defending and controlling the pandemic

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Africana
Depositing User:	Kabiru Wallace Ndung'u
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2019 14:16
Last Modified:	05 Sep 2019 14:16
URI:	http://thesisbank.jhia.ac.ke/id/eprint/9530

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