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0338/2017 - Vaccination and adolescent knowledge: Health education and actions for vaccine prevention.
Vacinação e o saber do adolescente: Educação em saúde e ações para a imunoprevenção.

Author:

• Selma Maria Fonseca Viegas - Viegas, SMF - <selmaviegas@ufsj.edu.br>

Co-author(s):

• Fabiana de Castro Sampaio - Sampaio, FC - <fabianasampaiost@hotmail.com>
• Patrícia Peres de Oliveira - Oliveira, P.P de - Divinópolis, MG - <pperesoliveira@gmail.com>
• Fernanda Moura Lanza - Lanza, FM - <fernandalanza@ufsj.edu.br>
• Valéria Conceição de Oliveira - oliveira, V.C. - Divinópolis, MG - <valeriaoliveira@ufsj.edu.br>
• Walquíria Jesusmara dos Santos - Santos, WJ - <waljsantos@hotmail.com>


Abstract:

This research discusses a cross sectional study in interface with the extension in 22 public schools in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil, which makes up 605 adolescents between 13 and 18, with the aim of analyzing the vaccination situation of adolescents in the 9th grade of elementary school and knowledge about communicable diseases and vaccine-preventable diseases. There was used sampling in three ion stages: schools, classes and students. It identified low vaccination coverage among adolescents, 45.1%, and the vaccine against yellow fever had the lowest coverage, 64%. When asked about which diseases and infections believed to be immunized, they prevailed vaccines Infantile Paralysis (60.7%), Yellow Fever (56.0%), Tetanus (34.0%) and Measles (28.6% ). They also dealt extension interventions with 6,650 people targeted for vaccination and reduction of vulnerability to preventable diseases in order to expand immunization coverage and conducting educational activities. Interventions in the extension totaled 2,334 doses of vaccines administered and 2,839 adolescents participated in health education activities. The research and extension were essential to the decision of adolescents in the vaccine prevention.

Keywords:

Public Health; School Health; Vaccination; Vaccination Coverage; Health Education.

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Viegas, SMF, Sampaio, FC, Oliveira, P.P de, Lanza, FM, oliveira, V.C., Santos, WJ. Vaccination and adolescent knowledge: Health education and actions for vaccine prevention.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2017/Sep). [Citado em 22/01/2025]. Está disponível em: http://cienciaesaudecoletiva.com.br/en/articles/vaccination-and-adolescent-knowledge-health-education-and-actions-for-vaccine-prevention/16390?id=16390&id=16390



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