title: University student’s HIV awareness and subjective risk assessment
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metadata.value: Potemkina, Ekaterina A.
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metadata.value: Mikhailova, Aleksandra V.
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metadata.value: Vovk, Darya V.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-10-02T14:17:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-10-02T14:17:49Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.value: Potemkina E.A., Mikhailova A.V., Vovk D.V. University student’s HIV awareness and subjective risk assessment. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol.  10, issue  3, pp. 323–337.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu16.2020.308
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19732
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metadata.value: The article presents the results of a study of factors associated with the risk of HIV infection among young people in St. Petersburg. The research was conducted using the crosssection method in the period from 2016 to 2019, and 1,256 people participated from ages
  17–26 years old. Using a structured interview, data was obtained from participants’ answers
  on their awareness of HIV. The interview was aimed at revealing the subjective risk amongst
  young people and learning how they perceive HIV can be transmitted. The interview also
  looked at how HIV can be avoided, i. e, using a condom during sexual contact, abstinence,
  refusal of intravenous drugs, etc. An assessment was made of the various methods of avoiding HIV and correlation between the factors. The analysis of the data demonstrated that
  the level of student awareness on the topic of HIV is relatively high at 75.6 % and it did not
  change significantly throughout the four years of the study. The number of students that associated themselves at risk is 31.5 %, therefore 68.5 % did not consider themselves at risk.
  These numbers also did not significantly change throughout the study. 51  % of students
  practice behaviour that excludes the main risks of HIV transmission, which include the
  above mentioned; no intravenous drugs, no sexual contact, using condoms, etc. The remaining 49 % did not carry out sufficient behaviours to keep infection rates to a minimum,
  22.5 % of the these participants did not confirm the use of condoms for every sexual encounter; 25.5 % of the people who did not confirm if they use condoms for every sexual act,
  said that they do not use condoms as they have one regular partner. The study did not demonstrate significant statistical correlation between the level of HIV awareness and behavioural practices for avoiding transmission. This suggests the need to build a more complex
  research model, to formulate broader prevention tasks, including not only information, but
  psychological components — the impact on a personal assessment of the risk of infection
  and on specific behavioural risk patterns.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 10; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: HIV infection
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: awareness on the topic of HIV
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: subjective risk of transmission
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: prevention target groups
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: University student’s HIV awareness and subjective risk assessment
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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