SEXUAL BEHAVIOR OF MALE ADOLESCENTS OF THE SCHOOLS AT RECIFE

Abstract

Exploratory and descriptive study, of quantitative boarding, with the objective of identifying sexual behaviors of male adolescents of private and public schools of Recife for contributing to the planning of health actions in sexually transmitted diseases, HIV/AIDS, in especial. The population was constituted by students, from 15 to 19 years old, whose sample not probabilistic intentional was 113. The data had been collected through a questionnaire, after the project to have been approved for the Ethics Committee in Research of the Hospital Agamenon Magalhaes, and with the authorization by means of the term of free and clarified assent, after presentation and project legal clarification to the adolescents, parents or for the responsible by the same ones. The data had been organized in microcomputer, using EXCEL program, analyzed and had evidenced that 62,7% of the adolescents of the private school declared already to have had to first sexual relation and 33,9% did not it have yet. However, in the public school, 72,2% initiated the sexual life. In the private school, 33,3% answered to have had to first sexual relation to the 14 years old and only 2,7% with nine years old. On the basis in these data, become evident that is each more urgent time to enable the adolescents to the taking of conscientious and responsible decision through a preventive program of specific sexual education of long stream in the searched schools, for the sexuality exercise with a little risks of involving in sexual risk relations, whose undesirable resulted can be infecting themselves with a sexually transmissible infection, also the human immunodeficiency virus or becoming a pregnant woman. Descriptors : Adolescents; Sexuality; Prevention; B ehavior