Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Regarding Management of HIV/Aids among Postgraduate Medical Internee Working in Tertiary Hospitals of Karachi.

Abstract

Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice about IIIV/AIDS among post-graduate medical doctors of medicine working in the tertiary care Hospitals ofKarachi. Methods: A descriptive Cross-sectional Study was done to assess the Postgraduate (PG) students HIV Knowledge Attitude and Practice (KAP). Three tertiary level care hospital of Karachi were randomly selected. All the postgraduates of three hospitals were approached for data collection. The important study variables are age, gender, year of training and year of graduation, passing year of part I FCPS. Data was collected through the self-structured questionnaire based on 31 questions regarding knowledge, attitude, practice and management of the participants by the principal investigator taking their written consent. The study duration was 6 months. SPSS version 24 was used to analyze data. Continuous variables like age, year of training, clinical practice experience was measured as mean and SD. The categorical variables such as level of knowledge, attitude and practice was presented through percentages and frequencies. Results: The study showed that the one third of participants had adequate knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS (35.3%), whereas sufficient internees had adequate attitude (69.7%) towards HIV Patients. and almost one fourth participants had adequate practice and Management (26.1%) approach towards HIV/AIDS cases. Conclusion: The Postgraduate internee has sufficient attitude, while poor knowledge and practice towards HIV/AIDS cases. For improving HIV/AIDS management and strategy, we recommended improving the awareness ofhealth care provider as well as general population through emphasis on three KAP components.