Relationship Between Teachers’ Teaching Method Efficacy in Hiv/Aids Education and Students’ Knowledge and Attitude Towards Sexual Behaviour in Secondary Schools in Coast Region, Kenya.

Abstract

The HIV and AIDS are challenges that may hinder the achievement of Millennium Development Goals by 2030. It has been argued that a lot can be done to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS through education. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between teachers’ teaching method efficacy in HIV/AIDS education and students’ knowledge and attitude towards sexual behaviour in secondary schools in the Coast Region of Kenya. The study used descriptive survey research design. Proportional, purposive and random sampling methods were used to choose the participants. The samples comprised 421 respondents of which 33 were teachers and 388 students in 13 secondary schools. Questionnaires and interview schedule were used to collect the data. Reliability coefficients of the instruments were 0.8 for both teachers and students. The statistics that were used to analyse data were frequencies, percentage and Chi-squire statistics. The hypotheses testing was done at α = 0.05 level of significance. The data collected in this study was analysed using Statistical Package for Social Sciences computer programme version 20.0. The result showed that, there was no relationship between teachers’ teaching method efficacy in HIV/AIDS education and students’ knowledge and attitude towards sexual behaviour in secondary schools in the Coast Region of Kenya. The study also revealed that majority of teachers’ had low self-efficacy in methods used when teaching HIV/AIDS education, students’ knowledge was high but Form 4 students had negative attitude towards sexual behaviour. The study recommends that teachers be trained on methods used to teach HIV/AIDS education and students in secondary schools be assisted to develop positive attitude towards sexual behaviour