Flores CÉ, Martínez PM, Alonso CME, Hernández GL

Language: Spanish
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Page: 125-142
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: sexually transmitted infections are considered a world health problem and an epidemic that reaches the whole world.
Objective: to evaluate the results of an educative intervention about knowledge of preventing sexually transmitted infections and infections by the Human immune deficiency Virus in adolescents.
Method: an educative pre-experimental of before/after type study was performed without control group, in students at “Héroes de Bolivia”, Secondary School , Güines, Mayabeque, from September 1st to December31st , 2015.The study group was constituted by the total of students of 9th grade of this center who agreed in participating in the investigation. The study had three stages: a diagnostic one in which a survey was applied and previous knowledge about the topic were evaluated; another stage of intervention in which the educative program me was applied and the final stage of evaluation where the effectiveness of the intervention was corroborated. The results were expressed in figures and percentages by statistical analysis.
Results: more than 50% of the adolescents showed insufficient knowledge about the identification of STI, the 80% about healing criteria, the 63.53 % did not know risk factors, the 38.82% about protection and the 70 % advantages with the use of condom which increased after the educative intervention.
Conclusions: the applied educative program contributed significantly to increase knowledge about prevention of sexually transmitted infections and about infection by human immune deficiency virus in adolescents.