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Research Study – Published: July 13, 2008
HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS HIV/AIDS EDUCATION
S. Mannangatty, Z. Zayapragassarazan, Dr. (Mrs.) B. Minnel Kodi
ABSTRACT
Data was collected from 175 high school teachers from 15 high schools in Puducherry U.T. in February 2007.
Respondents were asked to complete the HIV/AIDS Knowledge and Attitudes Scales for Teachers designed to
measure knowledge and assess attitudes related to HIV/AIDS and prevention education. Teachers were also
asked questions regarding their teaching experience and academic disciplines. Respondents included all
subject teachers and physical education and craft teachers. As a whole 60% of respondents answered
correctly. Results were discussed with respect to teachers teaching science, arts and crafts.
Keywords:
HIV/AIDS knowledge, teacher attitudes, prevention education, high school teachers, science teachers,
arts teachers, craft teachers, physical education, teacher training, awareness.
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
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in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Mannangatty, S., Zayapragassarazan, Z., & Minnel Kodi, B. (2008).
High school teachers’ knowledge and attitude towards HIV/AIDS education.
Indian Educational Researcher, 1(2), 53–57.
Received: June 22, 2007;
Revision Received: July 08, 2008;
Accepted: July 13, 2008.
Responding Author: S. Mannangatty @ mannangatty@gmail.com
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