Abstract

WUO, Moacir  and  GUZZO, Raquel S. L. The school role in AIDS prevention: how teachers and principals evaluate the programs?. Temas psicol. [online]. 2002, vol.10, n.3, pp.211-220. ISSN 1413-389X.

The scope of this study was to know how principals and teachers of technical schools evaluate the AIDS prevention programs developed in their teaching institute environment. 72 principals and 103 teachers of technical schools from the state of São Paulo took part in this research. According to the principals' point of view, some aspects stand out: increase in prevention activities from 53 % to 85%, from 1996 to 1999; predominance of an oral exposition method (68,4%); absence of a theoretical reference; health professional participation (48 %) and philanthropic groups (38%). Themes were about the STDs / AIDS (62,3%), sex and reproduction (21%), drugs (11,3%) and psychosocial (5,4%). Less than half of the activities were included in the School's Plans. According to the teachers, the most used method was oral exposition (34,1%); the professionals involved were health professionals (46,8%) followed by the psychologists (24,6%) and philanthropic groups (23%). There were no changes (66,7%). It's concluded that the activities and/or prevention programs which are developed do not aim at evaluations of changes in the student's behavior.

Keywords : AIDS; prevention programs; schools.

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