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Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas

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CASTRO ABREU, Idania; RIZO MONTERO, Yelena; REYES PELIER, Yudisai  and  VAZQUEZ ADAN, Yanis. An educational intervention about sexual transmitting infections to Fructuoso Rodríguez secondary school adolescents. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.2, pp.300-307. ISSN 1729-519X.

Introduction: An increase of the sexual transmition infection on the young people was detected in latest years, the teenagers are the most affected. Objective: Determine and modify the adolescents knowledge about their sexual behavior. Method: We used in this research was an educational intervention with the Fructuoso Rodriguez secondary school students; this school is located in La Lisa municipality. The period of time taken into account was from December 2009 to June 2010. A sample was selected using the statistic program EPIDAT 3.1 and it was established by 180 students of 7th, 8th and 9th grade, 60 students were selected at random in order to identify their learning necessities, the way used was an anonymous questionnaire developed in others researches, for this reason it did not need to be value. Later an educational program was developed with the application of participatory technics in order to get a better underestanding of it. The intervention results were evaluated by the application of the same questionnaire two months after the educational program, analysing the knowledges alteration before and after the intervention. Conclusions: En general the knowledge level about ITS. was deficient in the teenagers because their answers were regular or wrong in the studied topics like ITS varieties, principal symptoms, ways of sexual transmition, risk behavior, rules results after the educational intervention were changed to eficient because the adolecent improved their knowledges about these topics and they have risen their perception of risk.We consider as essential the worry of the individual to modify his behavior about this topic.was applied where the same variables were measured, and, an improve in the level of knowledge about sexual _ transmiting illness was obtained.

Keywords : knowledges; STI; adolescent; sexual education.

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