Sexual behavior of school teens
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https://doi.org/10.5935/1415-2762.20150013Keywords:
Sexuality, Adolescence, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Condoms, Health PromotionAbstract
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.Downloads
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