Background: One of the most significant instruments against AIDS is awareness. This study aims to determine awareness, attitude and performance of the students studying at medical college in Dezful. They had studied in terms of their needs analysis before their practical courses in hospital.
Methods: All students in medical school of Dezful participated in this cross-sectional study. Participants were selected by enumeration. They answered the Questionnaire (the researcher made) including 6 items for demographic characteristics, 19 items for awareness, 12 items for attitude and 7 items for performance. The data were collected in the software SPSS ver. 18, analyzed by c², spearman rank correlation, t-test and ANOVA.
Results: Forty (62.5%) participants were women. Fifty participants (78.1%) were highly aware of the AIDS. Significantly, men had higher awareness than the women (P= 0.01) that they were Learning from schools and‏ ‏textbooks. Moreover, more than a half of the participants had a positive attitude towards the suggested solutions and nursing students had a significantly higher attitude (p=0.04). In performance, 45.3% had appropriate performance in terms of transition of the AIDS.
Conclusion: It seemed that the student’s attitude and performance level was good. But inappropriate imaginations existed in students regarding the transmission, attitude and performance of the students who are exposed to the disease. To compensate these shortages, proper education in the field before entering the training, can be suggested.