Práticas sexuais de jovens universitários e a vulnerabilidade às Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis

• Autor(a) principal: Santana, Rosana Santos Costa
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/11436
• topic: Young people; Sexually Transmitted Infection; Sexuality; Vulnerability; Jovens; Infecção sexualmente transmissível; Sexualidade; Vulnerabilidade; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ENFERMAGEM

This study is part of the research "Sexuality and Vulnerability of Young People in Times of Sexually Transmitted Infections", and its general objective is to analyze the vulnerability of university students to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). And as specific objectives: to identify the sexual practices of university students in their affective relationships; learn the student s perceptions of the vulnerability of young people to the acquisition of Sexually Transmitted Infections and describe the practices adopted by young people for the prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infections. A descriptive study in a qualitative approach, developed at a private university in the city of Rio de Janeiro with 30 university students, 15 women and 15 men, aged 18 to 29 years. The data collection took place in three meetings with the students with the application of the focal group technique. The data were analyzed with the analysis of the technique of thematic-categorial content operationalized with the help of software N Vivo 9. During the analysis of the findings emerged three categories: Sexual practices of university students in the present times; Young people and the perception of vulnerability to STIs - "It will not happen to me ; Sexually Transmitted Infections - Do Youth Care About Prevention? Each category is structured with two subcategories. The main results show that today young people live their sexuality without restrictions to their sexual desires and impulses, they demonstrate freedom of expression, they have new tendencies and patterns of relationships, with greater diversity of relationship status and multiplicity of sexual partnerships. Young people's sexual behaviors have been more liberal, and based on a lifestyle of opportunity. As a result of these facts, university students recognize themselves as a vulnerable population. Individual, social and programmatic vulnerabilities were observed in university students' behaviors, that is, the assumption of risk behaviors such as the non-adoption of the condom in a continuous way in all sexual intercourses, the use of alcohol and drugs that favor exposure of the IST group. It can be concluded that the vulnerabilities of university students to STIs have a multifaceted characteristic resulting from unsafe sexual behavior that makes them susceptible to contracting sexually transmitted infections. It would be appropriate for young people to be made aware of the importance of sexual health care for STI prevention. Sexual education, besides school, family, and public policies, could help in this process and contribute to the decision making of the individual, minimizing vulnerabilities and aggravations to their health.