Vulnerability of adolescents to sexually transmitted infections / Vulnerabilidade a infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em adolescentes
DST j. bras. doenças sex. transm
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30(3): 82-89, 30-09-2018.
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em Inglês
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ABSTRACT
Introduction:
Adolescents are especially susceptible to sexually transmitted infections, with approximately 1/7 of all new cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection in this group.Objective:
To investigate the vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections among adolescents of the Centers for Testing and Counseling for Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Aids, CTAs, in the city of Juazeiro, state of Bahia, Brazil, from 2006 to 2012.Methods:
This was an exploratory cross-sectional study that used secondary data from 1,173 adolescents. Data analysis was processed in Stata 9.0 software by descriptive statistics and Pearson's χ2 test.Results:
There was predominance of female adolescents (56.86%), brown (22.85%), single (80.22%), with 811 years of education (44.76%) and stable partner (56.78%). The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections was of 5.88%, and there was statistically significant association with sex (more prevalent among girls; p=0.014), education (more common among the less educated; p=0.031) and marital status (more frequent among married/common-law; p=0.036).Conclusion:
Safer sex practices and later start of sexual activity combined with empowering actions, especially girls', are important steps to reduce sexually transmitted diseases among adolescentsRESUMO
Introduction:
Adolescents are especially susceptible to sexually transmitted infections, with approximately 1/7 of all new cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection in this group.Objective:
To investigate the vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections among adolescents of the Centers for Testing and Counseling for Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Aids, CTAs, in the city of Juazeiro, state of Bahia, Brazil, from 2006 to 2012.Methods:
This was an exploratory cross-sectional study that used secondary data from 1,173 adolescents. Data analysis was processed in Stata 9.0 software by descriptive statistics and Pearson's χ2 test.Results:
There was predominance of female adolescents (56.86%), brown (22.85%), single (80.22%), with 811 years of education (44.76%) and stable partner (56.78%). The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections was of 5.88%, and there was statistically significant association with sex (more prevalent among girls; p=0.014), education (more common among the less educated; p=0.031) and marital status (more frequent among married/common-law; p=0.036).Conclusion:
Safer sex practices and later start of sexual activity combined with empowering actions, especially girls', are important steps to reduce sexually transmitted diseases among adolescents
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Assunto principal:
Comportamento Sexual
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Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis
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Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo observacional
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Fatores de risco
Limite:
Humanos
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
DST j. bras. doenças sex. transm
Assunto da revista:
Doenças Sexualmente Transmissíveis
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
Brasil
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Center of Epidemiology and Health, Scholarship of Scientific Initiation of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco Petrolina (PE), Brazil/BR
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Center of Epidemiology and Health, Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco Petrolina (PE), Brazil/BR
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Humanities School, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil/BR
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Medical School, Universidade Federal do Pampa Uruguaiana (RS), Brazil/BR
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