Awareness of HIV Transmission Risks and Determinants of Sexual Behaviour: Descriptive and Multivariate Analyses among German Nursing Students.

Background And Aim: Nursing students play a crucial role in sexual health education. Evidence suggests, however, that nursing students had several gaps in their knowledge of HIV transmission. This study investigates how nursing students in Germany assess the potential risks of spreading HIV in defined situations and which factors influence the self-expressed sexual behaviour patterns of these students.

Vaccination coverage among students from a German health care college.

Health care students are at risk of acquiring and transmitting vaccine-preventable diseases. The purpose of this study was to assess their vaccination status and the influence of determining factors on their vaccination status. Unsatisfactory vaccination rates (43.

BMI, physical inactivity, cigarette and alcohol consumption in female nursing students: a 5-year comparison.

Background: Nursing staff are often involved in counseling patients with regard to health behavior. Although care promoting healthy lifestyle choices is included in the curriculum of nursing students in Germany, several studies of nursing students have reported a high prevalence of unhealthy behavior. This paper focuses on the behavior of female nursing students with regard to body mass index (BMI), physical activity, and cigarette and alcohol consumption.

[Vaccinations among students in health care professions].

Incomplete vaccinations among students in health care professions lead to an increased risk for infections. Until now, only few studies related to this issue do exist. Therefore vaccinations and awareness regarding the importance of vaccinations among students in health care professions should be investigated.

Interactive versus reproductive learning, a comparison of medical school graduates with participants of a postgraduate CPD session.

Aims: In order to develop the e-learning teaching material for medical professionals who are not physicians, we compared solution-based interactive and reading-based reproductive learning with regard to the increase of knowledge. Furthermore we tried to identify additional factors influencing learning.

Methods: We used a quasi-experimental double-stage study design with pre-test (point of time t(1)), intervention and post-test (point of time t(2)).