Sexual behavior of school teens
OBJECTIVE: To describe situations related to the sexual health of adolescent students. METHOD: This work is a cross-sectional descriptive study, involving 323 adolescent from public schools in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. RESULTS: In this study, 48.9% of the adolescents had already had sexual i...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Recursos: | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) |
| Repositorio: | Reme (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:periodicos.ufmg.br:article/49597 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/reme/article/view/49597 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Sexualidad Adolescencia Salud Sexual y Reproductiva Condones Promoción de la Salud Sexualidade Adolescência Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva Preservativos Promoção da Saúde Sexuality Adolescence Sexual and Reproductive Health Condoms Health Promotion |
| Resumo: | OBJECTIVE: To describe situations related to the sexual health of adolescent students. METHOD: This work is a cross-sectional descriptive study, involving 323 adolescent from public schools in Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil. RESULTS: In this study, 48.9% of the adolescents had already had sexual intercourse, appearing more in boys (65.6%) than in girls (38.4%). The average age of first sexual intercourse was 14.1 ± 1.6, and the mean number of partners throughout the adolescents' lives was 3.6 ± 2.4. The frequency of condom use during vaginal intercourse was low, in which only 28% always use this method, while another 57% state that they only use a condom sometimes. For oral sex, 51.0% never use condoms, whereas in anal sex only 16.6% said they always use a condom. CONCLUSION: It is necessary to emphasize actions to promote sexual health aimed at adolescents in order to minimize the problems that most occur in this phase. |
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