Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections
ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the social representations about sexually transmitted infections elaborated by undergraduate students. Methods: a descriptive, qualitative study, in the light of the structural approach of Social Representation Theory, carried out with 160 young undergraduate student...
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| author | Thelma Spindola Laércio Deleon de Melo Juliana de Lima Brandão Denize Cristina de Oliveira Sérgio Corrêa Marques Cristina Arreguy-Sena Paulo Ferreira Pinto |
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| description | ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the social representations about sexually transmitted infections elaborated by undergraduate students. Methods: a descriptive, qualitative study, in the light of the structural approach of Social Representation Theory, carried out with 160 young undergraduate students, in the second half of 2019, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected using a sociodemographic characterization questionnaire, knowledge and practices for preventing sexually transmitted infections, analyzed using descriptive statistics and a form of free evocations with the inducing term STD, analyzed using prototypical and similarity analysis. Results: the representation’s possible central nucleus is composed of lexicons aids, disease and HIV; the peripheral system by syphilis, sex, condoms, gonorrhea, prevention, infection, carelessness, HPV, herpes, ignorance, treatment, fear, unprotected-sex and danger. Final considerations: social thinking about sexually transmitted infections is characterized by their recognition as diseases, which require barrier prevention measures, associating with unsafe sexual practices that arouse fear. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca964e14678049b4a618ea6c4f7f6ae32023-12-05T07:37:37ZengAssociação Brasileira de EnfermagemRevista Brasileira de Enfermagem1984-04462023-12-0176610.1590/0034-7167-2022-0406Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infectionsThelma Spindolahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-5828Laércio Deleon de Melohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8470-7040Juliana de Lima Brandãohttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1463-2829Denize Cristina de Oliveirahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0830-0935Sérgio Corrêa Marqueshttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2597-4875Cristina Arreguy-Senahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5928-0495Paulo Ferreira Pintohttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-7321-3160ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the social representations about sexually transmitted infections elaborated by undergraduate students. Methods: a descriptive, qualitative study, in the light of the structural approach of Social Representation Theory, carried out with 160 young undergraduate students, in the second half of 2019, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Data were collected using a sociodemographic characterization questionnaire, knowledge and practices for preventing sexually transmitted infections, analyzed using descriptive statistics and a form of free evocations with the inducing term STD, analyzed using prototypical and similarity analysis. Results: the representation’s possible central nucleus is composed of lexicons aids, disease and HIV; the peripheral system by syphilis, sex, condoms, gonorrhea, prevention, infection, carelessness, HPV, herpes, ignorance, treatment, fear, unprotected-sex and danger. Final considerations: social thinking about sexually transmitted infections is characterized by their recognition as diseases, which require barrier prevention measures, associating with unsafe sexual practices that arouse fear.http://revodonto.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672023001000202&lng=en&tlng=enYoung AdultEducationHigherSexually Transmitted DiseasesSocial RepresentationPublic Health. |
| spellingShingle | Thelma Spindola Laércio Deleon de Melo Juliana de Lima Brandão Denize Cristina de Oliveira Sérgio Corrêa Marques Cristina Arreguy-Sena Paulo Ferreira Pinto Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Young Adult Education Higher Sexually Transmitted Diseases Social Representation Public Health. |
| title | Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections |
| title_full | Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections |
| title_fullStr | Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections |
| title_short | Social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections |
| title_sort | social representation of young people in higher education about sexually transmitted infections |
| topic | Young Adult Education Higher Sexually Transmitted Diseases Social Representation Public Health. |
| url | http://revodonto.bvsalud.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0034-71672023001000202&lng=en&tlng=en |
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