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Revista Cubana de Medicina General Integral
Print version ISSN 0864-2125On-line version ISSN 1561-3038
Abstract
DIAZ LLANES, Guillermo. Methodology for empowerment in sexual health of social participants linked to preschool boys/girls. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2010, vol.26, n.4, pp.607-616. ISSN 0864-2125.
INTRODUCTION: the promotion of health sexual behaviors is one of the major challenges of current public health due to its great complexity and its potential benefit to health situation at world level. One of the concerning theoretical features supporting the interventions in this health dimension is the empowerment, however, still there is a lack of methodologies able to guide the interventions at community level. OBJECTIVE: the objective of present paper was to create and to validate the methodology directed to empower in sexual health to social participants of community, linked with the education of preschool children. METHODS: the study included a participation-research design. RESULTS: it was possible to obtain a methodology fitted to empowerment including three differentiated stages and substages and at the same time, connected each other with enough flexibility to be adapted to different environments. Each stage includes expected alternatives from the procedures and logically ordered techniques from the action, reflecting in a critical way on this subject transforming it.
Keywords : Sexual health promotion; empowerment; methodology.