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Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Publica
versión impresa ISSN 1726-4634
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CATACORA-LOPEZ, Fresia y VILLANUEVA-ROQUE, Javier. Knowledge about hiv/aids and sexual practices in students of 14 to 17 years from Tacna, Perú 2004. Rev. perú. med. exp. salud publica [online]. 2007, vol.24, n.3, pp.240-247. ISSN 1726-4634.
Objective: To determine the level of knowledge about HIV/AIDS and the sexual practices in the students from 14 to 17 years of the city of Tacna, Peru. Material and methods: A cross sectional survey was realized between September and November of 2004, a two stage cluster probabilistic sampling was carried out in national and private schools. Were included 399 students that responded to a self-administered survey, the knowledge was classified at inadequate, regular and adequate according to their score obtained. The chi-square ant Mann-Whitney U tests were used. Results: The level of knowledge was regular for the majority of adolescents (46,4%), males had higher scores than females (p<0,05). The initiation of sexual intercourse was to 14,1 years among males and 15,4 among females. One in three (34,7%; IC95: 27,3-42,0) men said having sex as opposed to one in twelve (8,5%; IC95: 4,6-12,4) women (p<0,001); their 30% (IC95%: 19,3-40,7%) said not having used condoms when having sex with no differences according to sex. Information on HIV/AIDS is mainly received flyers (69,4%), television (64,2%) and their teachers (62,2%). Conclusion: The level of knowledge about HIV/AIDS among secondary school students from Tacna is regular, with early beginning of sexual intercourses and low use of condoms, showing risk of becoming infection at an early age.
Palabras clave : Health knowledge; attitudes; practice; Adolescent; Sexual activity; HIV/AIDS; School health.