Abstract

SILVA, André Teixeira da; JACOB, Maria Helena Vianna Metello  and  HIRDES, Alice. The knowledge of high school teenagers about STD/AIDS in southern Brazil. Aletheia [online]. 2015, n.46, pp.34-49. ISSN 1413-0394.

This research aimed to investigate the knowledge of adolescents who go to state public high schools in Charqueadas/RS - have about Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). It is a qualitative and descriptive study using semi-structured interview. For data analysis was used content analysis in the thematic mode. The results show that adolescents have some knowledge about what STD and AIDS are, the ways how these diseases are transmitted in sexual intercourse that condoms are used as protection and that some STD have no cure. However, they have doubts about how these diseases can be transmitted without sexual relations, their vulnerability in case they do not use condoms in all sexual relations and the consumption of alcoholic drinks and illicit drugs. Parents and friends provide STD and AIDS knowledge outside school. It is concluded that improvements and innovations in the teaching process forward to this issue should be adopted by schools.

Keywords : Knowledge; Sexually transmitted diseases; Adolescent health.

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