17, February 2025

Assess the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS among the adolescents in a selected urban community of New Delhi.

VOLUME-11; ISSUE-2; FEB-2025

Author(s): 1 Anshu Tomar, 2 Bhawna

Authors Affiliations:

1Associate Professor, Community Health Nursing/Holy Family College of Nursing, New Delhi, India

2Assistant Professor, Community Health Nursing/Holy Family College of Nursing, New Delhi, India

DOIs:10.2015/IJIRMF/202502002     |     Paper ID: IJIRMF202502002


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Abstract: HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is one of the world’s most serious public health    challenges. But there a global commitment to stopping new HIV infections and ensuring that everyone living with HIV has access to HIV treatment. According to UNAIDS, 36.9 million people HIV worldwide currently living with HIV/AIDS in 2017. Approximately 75% of people living with HIV globally where aware of their HIV status in 2017. 1.8 million Children {< 15 years old} worldwide are living with HIV. Most of these children were infected by their HIV positive mother during pregnancy, childbirth or breast feeding.

Therefore the present study was conducted to assess the knowledge of adolescents regarding HIV/AIDS in urban community of New Delhi. The main objectives of the study were to assess the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS amongst adolescents in a selected     urban   community. & to find out an association between knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS in relation to selected socio-demographic variables.

Methodology Descriptive Research Design was adopted in order to assess the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS in selected urban community of New Delhi among the sample of 80 adolescents which were selected by using convenient sampling method. The knowledge of adolescents regarding HIV/AIDS was assess by structured questionnaire.

Result The finding of the study shows that a total of 80 adolescents participated in the study out of which 14 { 17.5% }  have poor knowledge, 36 { 50%} have average knowledge, 26 {32.5%} Good knowledge ,Mean and Standard  Deviation  was calculated, it was found to be 10.47 and 4.491 respectively.

The study concludes that most of the adolescents had average knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS.

HIV/AIDS, Adolescents.

Anshu Tomar,  Bhawna (2025); Assess the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS among the adolescents in a selected urban community of New Delhi.,  International Journal for Innovative Research in Multidisciplinary Field, ISSN(O): 2455-0620, Vol-11, Issue-2, Pp.9-13          Available on –   https://www.ijirmf.com/

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