Diseño de una estrategia educativa para la prevención de las infecciones de transmisión sexual en las mujeres de 20 a 49 años. Ciudadela Assad Bucaram. Daule. Año 2018.

Abstract

Background: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) worldwide pose a serious health problem in both economic and social terms. At the level of Ecuador, the most affected provinces are Guayas, Manabí, Los Ríos, Cotopaxi and Pichincha; this situation is explained by the low perception of risk. Materials and methods: Descriptive, observational, cross-sectional and prospective research is carried out, whose purpose is to collect by means of a survey the knowledge on the subject and determine the components to design the strategy, whose participants are women from 20 to 49 years old from the citadel. Assad Bucaram of the Daule canton. The data obtained will be processed in Excel spreadsheets and then emptied into the SPSS statistical program. Results: The women participating in the study, mostly housewives, are 35 years old, as average age, have a primary level of education and live with their partner in free union. We found deficiencies in knowledge about sexually transmitted infections; as well as risky sexual practices, among which the low use of condoms (93%) stands out. In the development of the strategy, the didactic to use is the educational talk (65%), the topics to be taught are the most frequent ITS, which will be dictated once a week (46%), one hour per meeting (80%) and in the afternoon hours (62%). Conclusions: The design of the educational strategy is aimed at generating responsible sexual behaviors, with their implementation.