ArticleBMC public health2025
Study on HIV knowledge and cultural attitudes about sexuality among Chinese college students.
Article in BMC public health, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
2 citing papers in PubMed.
- Predictive analysis of influencing factors on HIV testing behavior among college students in Shanxi, China.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Predicting HIV self-testing intentions among Chinese college students: a dual-model analysis integrating health belief constructs and machine learning prioritization.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundNumerous studies have been carried out to investigate the factors that influence the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) knowledge of college students. However, the impact of cultural attitudes towards sexuality, particularly those related to masturbation, on the HIV knowledge within this population has not been comprehensively explored. The present study aimed to examine the factors influencing the HIV knowledge of Chinese college students, with a particular focus on its association with the cultural attitudes regarding masturbation.
methodsA cross-sectional study was conducted via the widely used Wen-Juan Xing questionnaire platform. A total of 6350 students participated anonymously, among which 5945 with complete responses formed the final sample. This sample consisted of 47.5% males and 52.5% females, with an average age of 19.35 ± 1.28 years. Independent sample t-tests, chi-square tests, and multiple linear regression analyses were utilized for data analysis.
resultsStudents with lower masturbation beliefs scale scores (LMBF), signifying less conservative beliefs and greater acceptance of masturbation, demonstrated better knowledge about HIV (t = 16.980, p = 0.000) compared to those with higher scores. Moreover, the LMBF group exhibited higher accuracy on the brief HIV knowledge questionnaire (HIV-KQ-18) questionnaire (p < 0.05). Multivariate linear analysis indicated that age and the masturbation belief scores were negatively correlated with the HIV-KQ-18 scores. Students in higher grades surpassed freshmen in terms of their performance on the HIV-KQ-18, and those from wealthy families scored higher. Respondents who were female, came from villages, belonged to multi-child families, had a sexual history, were heterosexual, and had no history of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) had significantly lower scores in HIV knowledge (p < 0.05). The overall correction rate of the HIV-KQ-18 was 62.0% among college students.
conclusionsCollege students had a rather limited understanding of HIV, which is influenced by multiple factors such as age, sex, the place of residence during childhood, year of study, family income, sexual history, sexual orientation, and the history of STIs. At the same time, cultural attitudes towards masturbation also had a particular influence on college students' knowledge of HIV. Consequently, it is essential to introduce customized HIV education programs to improve college students' comprehension and rectify cultural misconceptions regarding sexuality.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.