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A Study of Awareness of HIV/AIDS among Adolescents: (Girls and Boys of Urban and Rural Area)
Asso. Prof. & Head, Deptt. of Psychology, Yogiji Maharaj Mahavidyalaya, Dhari
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DIP: 18.01.511/20150301
DOI: 10.25215/0301.511
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the present study was to examine the awareness level regarding the HIV/AIDS among adolescent youths (girls & boys) of urban and rural area. The sample of two hundred adolescents out of which hundred were girls and hundred were boys both urban and rural area. To measure the HIV/AIDS awareness level of adolescents the HIV/AIDS awareness questionnaire was used. After careful administration of the HIV/AIDS awareness scale, collected information was classified in the light of objectives. On the basis of which certain findings were drawn. There is no significant difference among adolescent girls of urban and rural area towards HIV/AIDS awareness. As regarding the urban and rural area’s adolescent boys also found no significant difference regarding to their level of HIV/AIDS awareness.
Keywords
HIV, AIDS, adolescents, girls, boys, area – urban, rural, awareness level.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2015 I K Vaghela;
Received: December 13, 2015; Revision Received: December 15, 2015; Accepted: December 25, 2015
Dr. Krishna J. Vaghela @ kjvaghela13@gmail.com
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.511/20150301
10.25215/0301.511
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