Abstract

MIRABAL NAPOLES, Marjoris; BETANCOURT BETANCOUR, José; PRIETO CORDOBES, Yolexis  and  FERNANDEZ FRANCH, Neyda. Socio-cultural attitudes to face of the infections of sexual transmission in Medicine students. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.1, pp. 56-71. ISSN 1727-8120.

Background: Camagüey has the fourth national place in the number of persons infected with VHI/AIDS, after Havana, Santiago and Holguín. Objetive: the aim of this work is identifying socio-cultural attitudes to face of the infections of sexual transmission in first year Medicine students. Methods: in November 2011, a group of students participated in a questionnaire. The non-parametric test Kruskal Wallis was made to find significant differences in the answers given by persons with different age, sex or civil status, Frequency of answers to each question was found out. The non parametric technique of Ji square was used to evaluate if there were significant differences among the different groups of ages, the sex and the civil status. Results: it was valued that the behavioral component is strengthened, among other attitudes, for the tendency of the students to maintain stable couples, only a 46 % know most of transmission ways of STD and a 13,2 % know the clinical symptoms, a 12 % said they did not like condom use. Conclusions: it was possible to find with this survey some socio-cultural attitudes to face of the infections of sexual transmission in first year Medicine students.

Keywords : sexual behavior; sexually transmitted disease [etiology]; AIDS.

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