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0128/2021 - The prevention of sexually transmitted infections in the sexual itineraries of young people: differences according to gender
A prevenção das infecções sexualmente transmissíveis nos roteiros sexuais de jovens: diferenças segundo o gênero

Author:

• Thelma Spindola - Spindola, T - <tspindola.uerj@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1785-5828

Co-author(s):

• Rosana Santos Costa Santana - Santana, R. S. C. - <zana_costa@yahoo.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4342-6322
• Rômulo Frutuoso Antunes - Antunes, R. F. - <romulofantunes@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2800-5295
• Yndira Yta Machado - Machado, Y. Y - <yndiramachado@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0692-7299
• Paula Costa de Moraes - de Moraes, P. C. - <paula_moraes8@hotmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5482-9293


Abstract:

This study aims to address the vulnerability of young university students to sexually transmitted infections and aims to identify and analyze the sexual behavior of university students and practices to prevent sexually transmitted infections. Descriptive, qualitative research conducted in a private university in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, with 30 university students of both sexes, aged 18-29 years. The discursive data were collected by the Focal Group technique and analyzed using the content analysis technique, with the help of the Nvivo 9.0 software, and anchored in John Gagnon\'s theory of sexual scripts. The findings denote that university students recognize themselves as a population vulnerable to infections transmitted by unprotected sex. The group has insufficient knowledge about infections and does not use condoms continuously. It was noticed in the discourses of the university students that the type of affective relationship is determinant for the use (or not) of condoms. Young people believe in the group\'s invulnerability and therefore assume risky sexual behavior.

Keywords:

Young adult; Vulnerability in health; Sexually transmitted diseases; Sexual behavior.

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Spindola, T, Santana, R. S. C., Antunes, R. F., Machado, Y. Y, de Moraes, P. C.. The prevention of sexually transmitted infections in the sexual itineraries of young people: differences according to gender. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2021/Apr). [Citado em 24/06/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/the-prevention-of-sexually-transmitted-infections-in-the-sexual-itineraries-of-young-people-differences-according-to-gender/18027?id=18027



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