Educative intervetion abrout sexual transmitted infection. Matanzas

Abstract

Sexually transmitted diseases are a group of infectious diseases transmitted mainly by unprotected sexual contact (vaginal, anal, oral) and by an infected person. They are the important and specific cause of other diseases and death. We carried out an investigation in health systems and services, specifically evaluating the quasi experimental knowledge at the penitentiary centre “La Bellotex” of Matanzas, in the period between November 2006 and August 2007. Through a blind epidemiological inquiry we evaluated the information and knowledge level of the imprisoned women on sexually transmitted infections (prevention and spreading) and found that the forty-years-old and more group was the predominant one (30,3 % of the total). 46,7 % of the convicted women were workers before arriving to the penitentiary centre, and 33 % were housewives. There were not significant differences in having received or not information on these diseases before the application of the intervention project. We submitted the application of an intervention project with five educative themes and them we evaluated them through an inquiry of the knowledge level according to the new answers, the benefits resulting statistically significant.