The youth knowledge face to STI in the city council of Nhamundá- AM

Abstract

Teenagers are starting their sex lives earlier and earlier. Adolescence is a phase characterized by the age group of 12 to 18 years old, full of discoveries and vulnerabilities, where there is the expression of individual choice and questions before society, related to the knowledge of one's own body, sexual relations, drug use and consequently exposure to sexually transmitted infections (STIs). In this context, this study was idealized with the objective of evaluating the degree of knowledge of young people regarding Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in the city council of Nhamundá / Am. This is a descriptive, observational study of a quantitative character with a sample of 40 (forty) teenagers regularly enrolled in the 8th and 9th grade of elementary school at Escola Estadual Professor Gilberto Mestrinho, in the period between August and September 2015. The data were collected through questionnaire on the knowledge of young people in relation to sexuality, and descriptive statistics were used for data analysis. In the results it was found that of the 40 adolescents participating in the study, when asked if they knew the methods of STI prevention, the option answered by 70% (28) of the students was: not having knowledge and only 30% (12) students answered: having knowledge about prevention, however, the lack of dialogue with parents about sexual life, was pointed out as the main reason for not knowing about STIs p <0.09172 *. Thus, it is concluded that there is a lack of basic and indispensable knowledge to prevent STIs in the majority of students who participated in the interview, resulting from the lack of family dialogue, sexual education or even shyness of the adolescent himself in addressing the subject.

Keywords: Adolescent. Sexually transmitted diseases. Adolescent health.