Ascensión Fumero, Carlos Santamaría, Philip Johnson-Laird
[Ways of thinking: personality affects reasoning]
Psicothema
peer education approach health promotion community members supported promote healthenhancing change among peers study assessed effect peer health education hivaids knowledge amongst inschool adolescents secondary schools imo state intervention study carried among 296 287 inschool adolescents aged 15 19 years attending akwakuma girls secondary school federal government girls college owerri imo state respectively study three stages intervention intervention intervention impact peer education evaluated twelve weeks intervention data collected using semistructured questionnaires study utilized quasiexperimental study design chisquare test mcnemars test used test hypothesis significance level p 005 result study revealed majority 73 respondents akwakuma girls secondary school test group poor knowledge hivaids mode transmission prevention baseline overall good knowledge respondents test group improved 27 81 intervention 36 respondents control group good knowledge baseline knowledge 64 poor knowledge baseline compared posttest test group also poor knowledge baseline knowledge 277 control group increased posttest remaining 723 still poor knowledge result interschool comparison using chisquare revealed pvalue statistically significant intraschool comparison using mcnemars test revealed statistical significance questions test group none positively significant control group peer health education improved knowledge students akwakuma girls secondary school low baseline knowledge students control group poor knowledge baseline didnt increase poststudy peer health education strengthened expanded one tools behavior change among adolescents focus adolescents hivtargeted prevention