Imelda F.E. Manurunga, - and Chatarina U.W, - and Hari Basuki Notobroto, - (2016) Enhancement HIV Health Literacy at Servant of God in Providing Support for Individual at Risk of HIV for Following VCT in Province of NTT. International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR), 29 (1). pp. 124-129. ISSN 2307-4531

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Abstract

HIV Health literacy is the ability to understand information about HIV and act as the message of the information. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of HIV health literacy training to servant of God in improvement of knowledge skill identification of individuals at risk of HIV and skills of providing support VCT. This type of study is quasi experiment with a sample of 34 people comprising 17 intervention and 17 control group. The experimental group was given training of HIV health literacy treatment while the control group were given HIV module. Data were analyzed using paired and independent T test. The results showed that there was no difference in the average value of the pre-test in both groups. There was a significant increase in the average value of knowledge ( = 34.58; p <0.001), skills identification of individuals at risk of HIV ( = 64.71; p <0.001) and skill of VCT support ( =60.29; p <0.001) before and after the training. There are differences in the average value of knowledge ( = 35.58; p <0.001), skills identification of individuals at risk of HIV (= 64.70; p <0.001) and support VCT ( = 55.88; p <0.001) between the intervention group and the control group. In the control group there was no difference in the average value of the variable knowledge ( = -0.35; p = 0.71) and the skills of identifying individuals at risk of HIV and AIDS ( = 3.52; p = 0.38) and skills of VCT support ( = 2.94; p = 0.54) at the time before and after the intervention. Training of HIV health literacy can improve knowledge and skills of the servant of God in providing support for following VCT to individuals at risk of HIV.

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