NCT02903745

Knowledge Attitudes Beliefs and Practices Regarding HIV Among Teenagers in French Guiana

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,603 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier de Cayenne · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

French Guiana is the French territory where the prevalence of HIV is highest. in order to determine the knowledge attitudes, beliefs, and practices among the target group of teenagers attending the public school system a survey was conducted in 2011. schools and classrooms were randomly selected, and a structured questionnaire was administered. Descriptive statistics were obtained and multivariate logistic regression was used to determine predictors of main outcomes such as age at first sex. the results will be used to guide prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections though the school system.

Conditions

• HIV

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	observational

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-01-01
• Primary completion: 2011-01-01
• Completion: 2011-06-01
• First posted: 2016-09-16
• Last updated: 2016-09-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France