Sexualidade, saúde e contextos: influência da cultura e etnia no comportamento sexual

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    ABSTRACT: There is recognition of the need to examine psychosocial and ecological determinants contributing to both risk and protective factors related to adolescents' sexual behaviour and HIV/AIDS. The study utilized mixed quantitative and qualitative methods. Data were collected from the Portuguese sample of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) 2002. Based on these results, 14 focus group discussions were conducted. A substantial minority of young people continue to engage in high-risk practices. Thus, female gender, older age, reporting easy to talk with father, not getting drunk and not getting involved in fights are significantly associated with protected sexual behaviour (using condom during last sexual intercourse). According to these results, being female and a comprehensive grade student are both related to a significantly more positive attitude towards infected people. It was concluded that these adolescents view sexual behaviour, sexual partners and condom use as elements within a complex script that governs heterosexual interactions. Several themes related to condom used emerged. Despite HIV/AIDS knowledge, young people underestimate their own risk of becoming infected with HIV. The majority of adolescents believe that HIV-infected people experience discrimination and social exclusion. Adolescents' opinions of HIV-infected people were mostly positive. Although most participants knew that HIV cannot be transmitted through social contact, undefined fears concerning the infection exist. These findings have important implications for the implementation of a comprehensive programme on HIV/AIDS education in secondary schools.
    The European Journal of Public Health 07/2005; 15(3):300-4. · 2.52 Impact Factor
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    ABSTRACT: To begin to map the reported behaviours and attitudes of young Britons of south Asian origin that may have implications for sexual health. "South Asian" refers to people able to trace their ancestry from the Indian subcontinent (that is, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh), henceforth referred to as "Asian". A cross sectional study of sexual behaviour using self report measures in a self complete section of a social survey administered by trained interviewers in 1996. Greater Glasgow, Scotland. Sample (n = 824) originally recruited aged 14-15 in 1992 in secondary schools in Greater Glasgow and subsequently traced through general practitioner registration for 1996 survey. 492 Asians and non-Asians aged 18-20 years old eventually interviewed in their own homes. Self reported experience of sexual intercourse, age at first intercourse, and contraceptive practice over year before interview. Measures of sexual behaviour and attitudes were elicited through a self complete questionnaire filled out in the presence of, and returned to, a trained social interviewer. Asians, and particularly Asian women, were far less likely to report having had heterosexual intercourse. Those Asian women who had had intercourse were likely to do so for the first time at an older age, and with an older partner, than the non-Asian women. Asian women were less likely to report using the pill than non-Asian women, irrespective of their marital status, and Asian men were less likely than non-Asian men to report using condoms. Asian sexual abstinence was reported to be for religious reasons, which were not important for non-Asians. In contrast with non-Asians, Asians saw themselves as likely to be married with children within the next 5 years. Asian men considered the ideal age to marry for men and women to be younger than the non-Asian men's average estimate. Asian and non-Asian women suggested a similar ideal age for men to marry, but Asian women considered a younger age appropriate for women than did non-Asian women. The higher level of sexual abstinence among Asians, and particularly women, has implications for the delivery of sexual health services to the minority who are sexually active before marriage. The underreporting of condom use by Asian men compared with their non-Asian counterparts, suggests a failure of the existing sexual health education and health services to reach minority ethnic young men which may be remedied by collaborative work with institutions currently used by the Asian community.
    Sexually Transmitted Infections 07/1999; 75(3):162-7. · 2.61 Impact Factor
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