Blanco PME, Jordán PM, Martínez PY, Noda PA, Hurtado MSÁB, Rocha HK

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: teenagers´ behavior and life styles might be dangerous and unhealthy, so it is necessary an integral approach to their sanitary education.
Objective: to implement a designed educative program for contributing to the development of knowledge on reproductive health and osteoporosis prevention in ten-grade teenagers from the Senior High School ¨Jose Luis Dubrocq¨, municipality of Matanzas.
Materials and methods: prevention study carried out in the period February 2014-March 2015, in three stages: validation of a program and educative materials by a specialist, program implementation and evaluation of the post-intervention knowledge in 180 male and female students randomly chosen (45 % of the population), whose learning necessities were previously diagnosed. The coefficient of variation (CV) was calculated to determine the level of concordance criteria between specialists, and the T student test was applied to compare the arithmetic mean of the knowledge before and after intervention.
Results: the validation of the program and fold-downs was acceptable, and the suggestions were taking into account for their improvement. The level of the teenagers´ knowledge was evaluated as good after the intervention.
Conclusions: the efficacy of the educative program was proved because the development of the knowledge on the themes was stated.