The sequential educational intervention as effective measure of promotion of the sexual health and of prevention of sexual behaviors of risk in front of infections of sexual transmission
Felipe Hurtado Murillo, Francisco Donat Colomer, Rosa María Pellicer Faro, Amparo Royo Martínez, Jazmín Ripoll Perelló

SUMMARY

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of the program of promotion of the sexual health and of prevention of sexual behaviors of risk, on the infections of sexual transmission in adolescents.

Design: Intervention before-after study.

Emplacement: Four schools, one public and three private (one religious and three lay) of the Department 10 of Health of the Valencian Community.

Participants: 213 students of fourth course of Obligatory Secondary Education (50,7% men and 49,3% women).

Intervention: Educational sessions in groups of 20-25 students, with sequential programming of knowledge and attitudes, adjusted to evolutionary necessities and with audiovisual support.

Main measurements: Rates of successes and errors in knowledge and attitudes about infections of sexual transmission among sexes, types of schools (public-private) and teachings (lay-religious), before and after the educational intervention, by means of questionnaire self-applied, singular and anonymous.

Results: The program is effective taking place, after its application, an important increase in the rates of successes in all the questions, reaching significant differences in nine of the eleven questions (P < 0,01). The women overcome before in rates of successes to the men and after the intervention. So much regarding the school type (public and private) as of teaching (lay or religious), although there are previous differences respectively in favour of the public and religious, these are minimum and after the intervention all the groups experience an important increase in rates of successes. Conclusion: The effectiveness of the program has produced a significant increase in the rate of knowledge and sexual attitudes with independence of the sex, school type or of teaching.

KEY WORDS

Health, sexuality, sexual education, adolescence, sexually transmitted diseases, prevention.