Infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em adolescentes: fatores de risco e estratégias de prevenção na Atenção Primária de Saúde

Abstract

The burden of youth is a period experienced by everyone and with it a change of information and brings relevant changes in the life of the young woman. It is necessary to understand how to access information regarding the ISTS. As primary health care, nurses carry the role of guiding the young woman and monitoring and developing preventive strategies for prevention. This aimed to identify risk factors and primary prevention strategies such as primary health infections, Maranhão, as well as identifying adolescents as accesses and services in adolescent care; describe the main prevention strategies used in primary health care; It contests the most frequent risk factors in young people affected by sexually transmitted infections. This is an exploratory research with mixed, qualitative and technical that was carried out in the city of Balsas - MA. Data were collected in three Basic Health Units (UBS) in the urban area of the aforementioned municipality, with 75 adolescents using a semi-structured form applied by Google Forms. Thus, it was possible to identify that 72% of the research participants were aged between 18-19 years, 60% are brown, 34.66% have already attended a class on sexuality, 74.66% live with their father and mother, 96 % of participants that sex education should be integrated in schools, 64% have internet as their main source of information about ISTS. During data collection, it was observed that most adolescents have knowledge about STIs, despite not doing everything they know about prevention in practice.