TABLE 2.
—Attitudes and Knowledge Regarding Drug Use and AIDS Among Male Villagers in Intervention and Control Areas: Longchuan County, Yunnan Province, China, 1998
| Male Non–Drug Users Agreeing, % | Male Drug Users Agreeing, % | |||||
| Control (n = 459) | Intervention (n = 573) | χ2 (P) | Control (n = 100) | Intervention (n = 176) | χ2 (P) | |
| Attitudes | ||||||
| Drug use is a severe problem in my village. | 53.38 | 68.76 | 29.4 (.001) | 55.00 | 74.43 | 11.0 (.001) |
| Use of a drug affects me or my family. | 78.21 | 91.45 | 36.9 (.001) | 93.00 | 97.16 | 2.65 (.103) |
| AIDS is a severe problem in my village. | 24.40 | 40.49 | 29.68 (.001) | 25.00 | 39.20 | 5.73 (.017) |
| AIDS affects me or my family. | 74.95 | 86.04 | 20.5 (.001) | 84.0 | 88.64 | 1.20 (.272) |
| I should participate in preventing drug use/AIDS. | 89.11 | 96.51 | 22.1 (.001) | 90.00 | 96.02 | 4.0 (.045) |
| Knowledge | ||||||
| Knew smoking increases risk of drug use. | 52.29 | 61.43 | 8.71 (.003) | 53.0 | 53.98 | .02 (.876) |
| Correctly identified routes of transmission. | 15.69 | 59.16 | 201.0 (.001) | 14.00 | 52.84 | 40.53 (.001) |
| Had correct knowledge about prevention methods. | 20.92 | 49.04 | 86.95 (.001) | 21.00 | 55.11 | 30.32 (.001) |
| Answered correctly all questions on infection routes and prevention methods. | 5.23 | 37.17 | 147.0 (.001) | 6.0 | 36.36 | 31.06 (.001) |