| Summary: | Background: The high prevalence of HIV has in line with the high stigma of
HIV/AIDS in Banceuy Prison. Stigma of HIV/AIDS will aggravate PLWHA�s
(people living with HIV/AIDS) health and obstruct prevention of HIV/AIDS
programs. Theatre as health promotion program is one of the efforts to reduce
stigma of HIV/AID as well as to improve inmates knowledge of HIV/AIDS. The
theatre has been evaluated qualitatively by previous research. Hence, to
obtain optimal findings, the authors conducted quantitative study in short-term
and long-term evaluations.
Objectives: This study was aimed to determine the effectiveness of theatrical
performance in the improvement of knowledge of HIV/AIDS, providing
retention of knowledge, and reducing the stigma of HIV/AIDS.
Methods: The study has used mixed methods design, quasi-experiment by
pretest and posttest with control group design by self-administered
questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The quantitative study used 300
sample in short-term evaluation, it decreased to 144 sample in long-term
evaluation. Data analysis had used independent t-test, paired t-test, chisquare
test, stratification, and logistic regression. The qualitative study used
15 sample and thematic analysis for data analysis.
Results: In short-term evaluation, in the treatment group, the knowledge
scores increased significantly (p=0.005), and the stigma scores has no
different between pretest and posttest. However, the stigma scores decreased
significantly (p=0.003) in the control group. In the long-term evaluation, stigma
scores increased significantly in both groups (p=0.000). Knowledge had
relationship with stigma (p=0.000) with OR=4.7.
In qualitative results, the theatre provides knowledge retention on certain
inmates who have the same story of their life as drug user with the main actor,
and stigma had contributed to reduce stigma of HIV/AIDS.
Conclusion: Theatre is one of IEC programs and it could not be used as a
single effort for reducing stigma of HIV/AIDS. Hence, It is recommended to
provide continuous IEC and to collaborate with related networks.
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