The importance of sexual prevention for school-aged adolescents in Brazil: a nurse's perspective

• Autor(a) principal: Jobim, Mariana Lima Albuquerque
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Nascimento, Aline Silva do, Santos, Thailane Daniele Vieira dos, Silva, João Paulo Malta da, Simões, Tâmyssa dos Santos
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista JRG de Estudos Acadêmicos
• Texto Completo: http://revistajrg.com/index.php/jrg/article/view/637
• topic: Educação sexual; Nova geração; Sexualidade; Agentes orientadores; Prevenção sexual; Sexual education; New generation; Guidance agents; Promotion sexuality; Sexual health

Introduction: Sex education, as a guidance tool for young people at school, is crucial to the development of healthy relationships in children and adolescents, since it prevents sexually transmitted infections (STIs), assists in the construction of gender identity - as well as sexual orientation - and allows youth to reflect on the best way to initiate sexual activity. Objective: To analyze and describe, by means of a literature review, the nurse's perception regarding the educational strategies of sexual prevention for adolescents. Methodology: This is a literature review and descriptive study with a qualitative approach, carried out by means of a survey of journals from the Scientific Electronic Library (SciELO) and Latin American and Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences (LILACS) databases, as well as the Database on Nursing (BDENF) and the Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System Online (MEDLINE). Conclusions: It is hoped, with this study, that the prejudices rooted in the social imaginary about taboos concerning the sexuality of children and adolescents will be dispelled, aiming at the importance of nursing professionals as guiding agents of this discussion, and taking into account the desires of the sexual activity of today's youth, so that the work of nurses may be more efficient for the circumstances of the new generation.