Abstract

GUERRA PRADA, Hermen; TRUJILLO BLANCO, Nélida; NAVARRO VEGA, Néstor  and  MARTINEZ FERNANDEZ, Alexis. Educational intervention to elevate knowledge on STI/ HIV / AIDS in youths. AMC [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.6, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1025-0255.

Background: the purpose of education programs on sexually transmitted infections is to provide students of knowledge and the dexterity that allows them to behave in a responsible way and consequently to protect their own health. Objective: to elevate the level of knowledge on STI/HIV/AIDS in youths selected after educational interventions in the faculty of Health Technology at Octavio de la Concepción y de la Pedraja . Method: an experimental study of intervention to elevate knowledge on STI/HIV/AIDS from 2007 to 2008 was conducted. The study universe was integrated by four hundred twenty-two youths, the sample was constituted by two hundred-one of them. For the selection of the sample the aleatory simple method was used, the used variables were: age, sex, first sexual intercourses and level of knowledge. Results: the female sex prevailed during the study, the knowledge on STI/HIV/AIDS in the first survey was about 56,21% evaluated of regular, the 38,32% of bad and only the 5,42% of well. In the second survey it was obtained encouraging results after the educational interventions where 92,6% was evaluated of well and 7,4% of regular, none evaluated of bad. Conclusions: there was a bigger participation in the study of the female sex. A precocious beginning of sexual first intercourses was observed in the ages between twelve to fourteen years fundamentally in the masculine sex.

Keywords : ITS; VIH; SIDA; jóvenes; STI; HIV; AIDS; youths.

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