CONHECIMENTOS E PREVENÇÃO DE DST/AIDS EM ADOLESCENTES

• Autor(a) principal: Duarte, Regina Célia
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/1416
• topic: Adolescentes; Sexualidade; Doenças venéreas - Prevenção; Prevenção da AIDS; Adolescents; Sexuality; Diseases sexually transmissible-prevention; AIDS-prevention; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA

The Psychology of the Health has been dedicating itself to assisting the demand of the public health, mainly regarding to the prevention of diseases and promotion of the health. Referring to the epidemic of AIDS and other sexually transmissible diseases, the adolescent has been the most vulnerable public. Adolescence is considered a disturbed and disturbing phase. In this period of the life the adolescent is more susceptible to the contamination of such dieseases due to the emotional instability and his/her own position towards values and patterns of conduct. The aim of this study is to evaluate knowledge and protection/risk behaviors of adolescents' sexual practices, to identify socioeconomic and demographic data of those adolescents', to investigate the adolescents' knowledge about AIDS and other sexually transmissible dieseases and to know the protection behaviors and risks regarding these dieseases. The population of this study was constituted by 95 adolescents between 14 and 21 years old, of both sexes, with a predominance of the masculine gender and with an average family income of 4 (four) minimum wages. It is a descriptive research, in which a questionnaire composed by questions directly related to the theme was used. The collection of data took place at classroom of a state school from Guarulhos, a city nearby São Paulo, with pupils from the evening school. After answering the questionnaire, the adolescents attended a lecture about prevention and orientation about AIDS and other sexually transmissible dieseases, in which they could elucidate doubts. The results show that 67,4% of the adolescents have difficulties in defining the sexuality concept, in an almost equal proportion between feminine and masculine gender, and 84,2% know correctly the definition of sexually transmissible diseases. Most of the adolescents (67,4%) answered that they know some types of sexually transmissible diseases, standing out AIDS and the gonorrhea. The masculine gender had the beginning of the sexual life at the age of 10 and the feminine gender, at the age of 13: this represents 53,7% with active sexual life. In this study, 58,9% of them inform that they know what are the protection behaviors, however, among these, only 55,8% use the masculine preservative (condom). There are no significant differences concerning the relationship type and the constant use of the masculine preservative. It was verified that 63,1% of the adolescents obtain information and knowledge about AIDS and other sexually transmissible dieseases through the professionals of the education and of the health. In that way, the classroom turns to be a protection factor. This study confirms that part of the adolescents has knowledge and information about AIDS and other sexually transmissible dieseases, however, this knowledge is fragile when it comes to the practices for a protection behavior, what produces a risk behavior. These situations endanger the taking of protection behaviors. Therefore, a continuous program from the health and the education areas made directly inside the school, which develops interactive activities in order to transform the adolescent's behavior about information and knowledge in effective conscience of protection behaviors can improve this relation between having the knowledge and using it in the practice.(AU)