The Effect of Educational Program Based on Health Belief Model about HIV/AIDS among High School Students

Background: considering the importance of learning health knowledge and the need to promote appropriate health attitudes, beliefs and behaviors regarding human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (hiv/aids) among school-age people, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of an educational program based on health belief model (hbm) about hiv/aids. materials and methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed on 100 male high school students in fasa, iran. a sample size of 100 was determined based on the examination of similar literature with 95% confidence interval and 80% test capability. the subjects were divided into two groups of 50 subjects. after administering a pre-test to both groups, only the experimental group was trained based on the hbm constructs on the hiv/aids preventive behaviors. then intervention was followed by group discussion (10-person groups) in 8 sessions each 55-60 minutes. in order to collect information based on health belief model, a questionnaire consisting of 41 questions in three sections was used. data were analyzed using spss version 22.0 software. results: educational intervention based on health belief model resulted in meaningful enhancement of the subjects’ knowledge, perceived susceptibility, perceived severity, perceived benefits, and perceived self-efficacy (p <0.05). furthermore, the students’ perceived barriers about beliefs related to hiv/aids preventive behaviors decreased significantly (p <0.05). conclusion: according to the results, educational intervention has increased the hiv/aids prevention behavior based on health belief model. therefore, the results of this study can be used in the theory-based intervention strategies to create and modify health behaviors.