Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students.
<strong>Background: </strong>The worldwide epidemic outburst cause by the HIV and lack of effective vaccines against it make of human sexual behavior the most important element to fight this disease. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> To identify knowledge level and risk...
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| author | Luis Manuel Padrón Velázquez Clara Hilda Vega Blanco |
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| description | <strong>Background: </strong>The worldwide epidemic outburst cause by the HIV and lack of effective vaccines against it make of human sexual behavior the most important element to fight this disease. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> To identify knowledge level and risk behaviors associated with the infection with this virus in students of second year of Community General Medicine. <strong><br />Methods:</strong> A cross-sectional, descriptive, epidemiological, observational study was developed from July to December 2006 including 44 Venezuelan Medicine students, from Giradot municipality, Aragua state, who referred having had sexual intercourse in the last semester of 2006. <strong><br />Results:</strong> Most of the students (77,3 %) were females. More that half of them was between 20 and 29 years of age and 61, 4% admitting having knowledge about the different ways of infection. 255 recognized that every sexual orientation could be risky, with less percentage for females. All the surveyed persons agreed to through the test to identify the virus and only 2 of them (4, 5%) referred not confidentiality. young males showed higher percentage of unprotected intercourse and couple stability. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> Results show that it is important to stress preventive activities to avoid HIV infection in male students and to raise their responsibility regarding safe sexual relations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-585b18ddfc104ed39e141d30a585f88f2025-01-30T21:28:40ZspaCentro Provincial de Información de Ciencias Médicas. CienfuegosMedisur1727-897X2009-03-01711219411Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students.Luis Manuel Padrón VelázquezClara Hilda Vega Blanco<strong>Background: </strong>The worldwide epidemic outburst cause by the HIV and lack of effective vaccines against it make of human sexual behavior the most important element to fight this disease. <strong><br />Objective:</strong> To identify knowledge level and risk behaviors associated with the infection with this virus in students of second year of Community General Medicine. <strong><br />Methods:</strong> A cross-sectional, descriptive, epidemiological, observational study was developed from July to December 2006 including 44 Venezuelan Medicine students, from Giradot municipality, Aragua state, who referred having had sexual intercourse in the last semester of 2006. <strong><br />Results:</strong> Most of the students (77,3 %) were females. More that half of them was between 20 and 29 years of age and 61, 4% admitting having knowledge about the different ways of infection. 255 recognized that every sexual orientation could be risky, with less percentage for females. All the surveyed persons agreed to through the test to identify the virus and only 2 of them (4, 5%) referred not confidentiality. young males showed higher percentage of unprotected intercourse and couple stability. <strong><br />Conclusions:</strong> Results show that it is important to stress preventive activities to avoid HIV infection in male students and to raise their responsibility regarding safe sexual relations.http://medisur.sld.cu/index.php/medisur/article/view/566infecciones por vih (prev)síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (prev)factores de riesgoconocimientos, actitudes y prácticaeducación en saludsexo seguroestudiantes de medicinamedicina comunitaria |
| spellingShingle | Luis Manuel Padrón Velázquez Clara Hilda Vega Blanco Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students. Medisur infecciones por vih (prev) síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (prev) factores de riesgo conocimientos, actitudes y práctica educación en salud sexo seguro estudiantes de medicina medicina comunitaria |
| title | Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students. |
| title_full | Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students. |
| title_fullStr | Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students. |
| title_short | Knowledge and risk behaviors related with HIV infect in Communitarian General Medicine students. |
| title_sort | knowledge and risk behaviors related with hiv infect in communitarian general medicine students |
| topic | infecciones por vih (prev) síndrome de inmunodeficiencia adquirida (prev) factores de riesgo conocimientos, actitudes y práctica educación en salud sexo seguro estudiantes de medicina medicina comunitaria |
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