O conhecimento e o uso de preservativo por adolescentes: estudo comparativo em uma escola particular e pública

• Autor(a) principal: e Jardim, Victória Maria Jardim
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Nominato, Leonardo Trindade, Ghetti, Pedro Angelo Oliveira, Lauriano, Maurício Manhães Lauriano Manhães, Gadêlha, Tales Atta, Schmith, Pedro Mercante, Marques, Vinícius Passamani, de Abreu, Annelise Maria Wilken
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Científica da Faculdade de Medicina de Campos
• Texto Completo: https://www.fmc.br/ojs/index.php/RCFMC/article/view/75
• topic: Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis; Conhecimento; Adolescente; Sexually Transmitted Diseases; Knowledge; Adolescent

Adolescents are a population group of large epidemiological risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and early pregnancy, especially the low age of the first sexual intercourse, not using condoms and diversity of partners. Furthermore, the lack of information is also a contributing factor to the increased susceptibility to diseases and unwanted pregnancies. The objective of this research was to evaluate the prevalence and knowledge of condom use in sexual relationships in adolescents and identify the reasons why not to use it. It is intended to contribute to the collaboration of orientation programs and monitoring, improving the knowledge provided by the schools. It was a descriptive study involving 88 students in a public school and 61 from a private school, and they are enrolled in high school and aged between 14 and 19 years. This study met the 196/96 CNS on issues of ethics in research with humans. It was observed that 96.7% and 96.6% of students from private and public schools, respectively, have knowledge about condoms. It was also found that 65% of private school students and 67.4% of public school make frequent use of condoms. Socioeconomic status appears to influence condom use at first intercourse, but this variable does not appear to be significant with regard to the continued use of the same sex in subsequent. It was concluded that the variables knowledge and condom use are not directly proportional.