De Gagne and Colleagues Publish Article in Journal of Community Health Nursing

Jennie De Gagne and colleagues recently published an article entitled "Effectiveness of a Structured Teaching Program on Knowledge and Attitudes Toward HIV among Young Women in India" in the Journal of Community Health Nursing. Co-authors include Sujayalakshmi Devarayasamudram, Neeraja Kurudi and Hee Sun Kang. 

Abstract

India has the third highest number of persons living with HIV in the world. We evaluated the effectiveness of a structured teaching program on HIV-related knowledge and attitudes among 600 young women, aged 20–40 years, in India. This study employed a quasi-experimental pre–post design. Significant differences were found in the level of the participants’ knowledge of (t = 78.89, p