Effect of mobile application use on knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus among university students.

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the effect of using a mobile application on knowledge about human immunodeficiency virus among university students.

METHOD: A before-and-after intervention study, with 196 university students, from August to December 2018. The intervention consisted of using the educ@aids mobile application for 15 days. Univariate analyzes were performed using simple descriptive statistics and the McNemar test was used to compare knowledge before and after the intervention.

RESULTS

There was an improvement in knowledge after using educ@aids in the variables related to knowledge about the transmission of the virus; knowledge about treatment, cure and prevention; knowledge of other information about human immunodeficiency virus.

CONCLUSION

The use of educ@aids increased knowledge about the human immunodeficiency virus among health university students.