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Effect of mobile application use on knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus among university students
| Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of using a mobile application on knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus among university students. METHOD: A before-and-after intervention study, with 196 university students, from August to December 2018. The intervention consisted of using the educ@aids mobile application for 15 days. Univariate analyzes were performed using simple descriptive statistics and the McNemar test was used to compare knowledge before and after the intervention. RESULTS: There was an improvement in knowledge after using educ@aids in the variables related to knowledge about the transmission of the virus; knowledge about treatment, cure and prevention; knowledge of other information about human immunodeficiency virus. CONCLUSION: The use of educ@aids increased knowledge about the human immunodeficiency virus among health university students. |
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| Autores principais: | Soares, Yndiara Kássia da Cunha |
| Outros Autores: | Araújo, Telma Maria Evangelista de; Borges, José Wicto Pereira; Andrade, Elaine Maria Leite Rangel; Oliveira, Adélia Dalva da Silva; Fronteira, Inês |
| Assunto: | General Medicine SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of using a mobile application on knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus among university students. METHOD: A before-and-after intervention study, with 196 university students, from August to December 2018. The intervention consisted of using the educ@aids mobile application for 15 days. Univariate analyzes were performed using simple descriptive statistics and the McNemar test was used to compare knowledge before and after the intervention. RESULTS: There was an improvement in knowledge after using educ@aids in the variables related to knowledge about the transmission of the virus; knowledge about treatment, cure and prevention; knowledge of other information about human immunodeficiency virus. CONCLUSION: The use of educ@aids increased knowledge about the human immunodeficiency virus among health university students. |
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