This study was conducted to identify the level of knowledge, attitude, and its influence on preventive behavior among the students of BBA and Bio-TEC BUITMS Quetta, Pakistan. The data was collected using a structured questionnaire to 304 students in February 2009 and analyzed by SPSS V16. The age of students was between 18 tp 27 years of age. Around two thirds of them were males. There were 232 students in BBA and 72 from Bio-TEC. Majority of students lived with their family and the average monthly allowance was 2000 to 5000 rupee (US$25-50US$). The results indicated that only 3.9% or 12 students had high knowledge 43% or 131 had moderate knowledge and rest had low knowledge towards HIV/AIDS. The results attitude showed that there were 48.7% of respondents who had "neutral attitude", 10.9% of them had "positive attitude", while 40.5% had "negative attitude. In respect to preventive behavior 53.3 of the students have moderate level of practice 32.6 of students had high level, and only 14.1% of the students had very low level of the practice.

Health researchers, the intended audience of this book, are not limited to scientists pursuing a research career. They include health professionals, administrators, policymakers and non-governmental organizations, among others, who can and should use the scientific method to guide their work for improving the health of individuals and communities. Even if they do not pursue much research themselves, they need to grasp the principles of the scientific method, to understand the value and also the limitations of science, and to be able to assess and evaluate results of research before applying them. This book includes the following chapters: Introduction and overview; ethics in health research; what research to do; planning the research; writing the research protocol; submitting a research proposal; implementing the research project; describing and analysing the research results; communicating research; guidelines on writing a scientific paper; publishing a scientific paper; guidelines on making a scientific presentation; assessing and evaluating research.

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