Abstract

ORTUNIO C, Magaly; RODRIGUEZ, Avitmar; GUEVARA R, Harold  and  CARDOZO C, Rosa. Knowledge on the human papilloma virus in students of Cytotechnology of a National University. Comunidad y Salud [online]. 2014, vol.12, n.1, pp.1-10. ISSN 1690-3293.

The sexual transmission infections including the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection are very common in the world. Objective. To determine the knowledge on HPV in students of Cytotechnology. Methods. Descriptive investigation. A questionnaire was applied in 73 students, was included age, origin, exercise of sexual function, sex partners, etiology of HPV, transmission way, clinic and prevention. Results. The median of age was 20 ± 0.5 years. There was a significant predominance of female gender (Z = 8.28; p <0.001) and the students which refer to have more than a sexual partner (42 de 73, 57.5 %), with Z = 3.34; p < 0.001. There was a 95.9% a very good or excellent knowledge and significantly higher than whom had a good one (4.11%), whithout statistically significant differences between the medians of scores according sex, it is concluded that this knowledge could be associated to a responsible excercise of sexuality in both genders. It is recommended reinforce the information and tuition to the adolescents in respect of HPV.

Keywords : Human Papilloma Virus; Adolescentes; Sexually transmitled diseases.

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