Abstract
To analyze the association between vulnerabilities to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs/HIV/AIDS) of adolescents in poverty and their level of resilience. Cross-sectional study with 287 students between 11 and 17 years old in a school in the outskirts of Fortaleza-Ce. The study was conducted from August to October 2016. Three instruments related to characterization, vulnerability to STIs/HIV/AIDS and resilience were used. The association between the instruments was calculated using the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Association between vulnerability to STIs/HIV/AIDS and resilience was assessed through the Spearman's correlation coefficient. Statistical significance was set at p<0.05. There was a significant association between the factors "housing" (p=0.022), "family income" (p=0.037) and vulnerability to STIs/HIV/AIDS. Adolescents whose father has completed high school (p=0.043) have moderately high resilience. Adolescents with low socioeconomic status and who live on less than a minimum wage tends to be more susceptible to vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV/AIDS and to have low resilience.
Highlights
METHODPoverty is a cross-sectional phenomenon that involves several factors
94 (32.8%) fathers worked in the construction industry, and 119 (41.5%) mothers worked at home; 87 (30.3%) families lived with an income of less than two minimum wages
Female adolescents, between 15 and 17 years old, with more than 11 years of education, who self-identified as yellow, who did not practice a religion, who were in another type of association, who lived in a rented house, with two people and with an income > 3 minimum wages were more resilient when compared to the others (Table 3)
Summary
Poverty is a cross-sectional phenomenon that involves several factors. The number of people living in extreme poverty has dropped from 1.9 billion to 836 million. In Brazil, 40% of Brazilians up to 14 years of age live in poverty, in a situation of vulnerability and are susceptible to Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)(3-4). Every day, there are more than 1 million new cases of STIs worldwide. There are around 357 million new infections with STIs, among which are chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis and trichomoniasis. This greatly increases the risk of acquiring or transmitting the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)(5)
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