Family Life And Hiv/Aids Education (Flhe) As Predictor Of Knowledge And Attitude To Hiv/Aids Among Adolescents With Hearing Impairment In South-West, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

The menace of HIV/AIDS is a serious concern globally, especially the rate at which the

disease spreads among adolescents with hearing impairment. This has been attributed to

poor knowledge of and attitude to the incidence of HIV/AIDS, lack of personal skills

coupled with inability of adolescents with hearing impairment to hear, comprehend and

translate information about HIV/AIDS to functional use that could have helped them to

cope with life challenges. Several studies have been carried out on the influence of

Sexuality Education on adolescents without hearing impairment. However, there is a

paucity of studies on the influence of Sexuality Education on adolescents with hearing

impairment‟s knowledge of and attitude to HIV/AIDS. This study, therefore, investigated

Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education as predictors of knowledge of and attitude to

HIV/AIDS among adolescents with hearing impairment in South-West, Nigeria.

The study adopted survey research design of ex-post facto type. Multi-stage sampling

technique involving stratified random sampling, purposive and simple random sampling

were employed to select states, schools and the participants in South-West, Nigeria. A

total of 450 adolescents with hearing impairment were selected. Data were collected

through research scale tagged Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education inventory consisting

of Self-esteem Inventory (0.80), Goal Setting Inventory (0.62), Decision-making

Inventory (0.60), HIV/AIDS‟ Knowledge Inventory (0.62) and HIV/AIDS Attitudinal

Inventory (0.60). Six research questions were answered at the 0.05 level of significance.

Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, Pearson Product Moment Correlation and

Multiple regression.

The independent variables namely, Self-esteem, Goal-setting and Decision-making

showed significant relationship with the knowledge of adolescents with hearing

impairment about HIV/AIDS in the following order: decision-making (r=0.551; p