Abstract

ROQUE VARGAS, Roberto; PILETA ZAMORA, Niurka; GUERRA CUBA, Delia  and  MUSTELIER TELLEZ, Héctor. Community work like a humanization tool in HIV/AIDS persons. Rev Cubana Enfermer [online]. 2009, vol.25, n.3-4, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-2961.

A study on community intervention in patients from consulting room No. 26 of "Josué País García" Faculty Polyclinic in Santiago de Cuba province during 2005 to modify the knowledges and criteria on advantages of Ambulatory Care System for HIV/AIDS persons, from a sample of 416 patients we selected 236 for simple random method aged 15-19 applying a questionnaire before and after intervention using the following variables: age, sex, schooling, knowledges on human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, treatment ways for these persons, allowing us to design the intervention technique. Data obtained were processed by manual method using a calculator and the results are showed in statistical tables using the percentage like the summary unit. As a result, the group aged 30-34 and female sex had the higher prevalence, the knowledge on the human immunodeficiency virus transmission route was adequate but there was an ignorance on the treatment of these persons being modified when the intervention concluded and we achieved that 99,2% of our study population will accept the ambulatory care system like its way of social reintegration of people presenting this disease.

Keywords : Community work; humanization; HIV/AIDS; nursing..

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