Teenagers’ integral sanitary education at the Urban Senior High School Jose Luis Dubrocq, of Matanzas

Abstract

We carried out a cross-sectional descriptive study with the aim of elaborating a program contributing to the teenagers’ integral sanitary education in the Urban Senior High School José Luis Dubrocq, of Matanzas municipality, from September 2013 to April 2014. An inquiry was applied to assess the learning necessities on several general aspects of human reproduction and osteoporosis prevention. 180 male and female 10-grade students, randomly chosen among the 396 matriculated in that school, answered it, representing 45 % of the population. The reliability analysis was carried out through the Cronbach alpha coefficient, presenting a value of R²=0,82, so the inquiry fulfilled the reliability assumption, and the validity analysis was established through the lineal regression determination, R²=0,80 in this case, allowing to consider the inquiry suitable. The teenagers’ knowledge level was evaluated as regular and the educative necessities as high. We arrived to the conclusion that sanitary education in the studied themes is unsatisfactory; an educative program was designed to increase knowledge on these themes. It will be teach by trained Medicine students as peer promoters, giving recommendations to increase medical counseling with the school participation, to promote healthy behaviors.