Studies

The Federal Centre for Health Education endeavours to make its work as effective as possible. To achieve this goal, there is a need to constantly improve education activities and continuously review the success of the measures.

It is for this reason that we regularly conduct studies.

They make it possible

To gear the planning and implementation of education measures in the various subject fields to the latest scientific findings,
To examine whether our measures really do achieve the targeted, health-promoting effects.

Although the questions and the results of these studies therefore always have a direct link to the work of BZgA, they also contain a wealth of information that can be used by the interested public, and particularly by people and institutions working in the field of health prevention.

Consequently, all the studies conducted by BZgA are published.

The studies and evaluation results from the field of sex education, contraception and family planning can be found at: www.forschung.sexualaufklaerung.de

We will be more than pleased to provide further information:

Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung
Referat 2-25
Ostmerheimer Strasse 220
D-51109 Köln, Germany
E-mail: forschung(at)bzga.de

See below the list of all available studies with at least an englisch short version.
The overall list of all available studies can be found here.

Public Awareness of AIDS in the Federal Republic of Germany 2004

Knowledge, attitudes and behaviour relating to protection against AIDS
A repeat survey by the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA), Cologne

short version

Aids im öffentlichen Bewusstsein der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2004

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Since the mid-1980s, the AIDS prevention campaign has been informing the population of the Federal Republic of Germany about the disease AIDS and the associated infection risks, particularly providing education regarding the fact that people should protect themselves against infection with HIV, and ways of doing so.

The impact of this AIDS prevention campaign on knowledge, attitudes and behaviour relating to HIV and AIDS has been studied by the Federal Centre for Health Prevention (BZgA) since 1987 by means of the long-term study entitled "Public Awareness of AIDS", which comprises annual, nationwide surveys conducted among the general public over the age of 16 in the Federal Republic of Germany.

These representative surveys examine

The extent to which the campaign´s various prevention measures reach the public,
Whether the level of knowledge necessary for AIDS prevention continues to be maintained,
The extent to which people protect themselves against sexual transmission of the virus by using condoms, especially those people who are of particular importance in the context of AIDS prevention, such as 16 to 44 year-old singles,
Whether people with HIV and AIDS are isolated in the attitudes of the public, or rather regarded as people needing attention and help.

The present Summary contains the central results of the latest survey, which was completed at the end of 2004. Key indicators are presented as medium or long-term trends, such as those relating to the reach of the campaign media, knowledge of when there is a risk or no risk of an HIV infection, protective intentions and protective behaviour, as well as willingness to help people with HIV and AIDS.

A detailed report (in German only) on the results can be requested from the Federal Centre for Health Education or downloaded from the Internet.