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- Title
Educação em saúde como ferramenta estratégica na prevenção de infecções sexualmente transmissíveis: Relato de Experiência.
- Authors
Sá Costa Rocha, Andréa de Jesus; Georges Mendes, Pâmela Driely; Gomes de Sousa, Samara Sales; de Lima Sardinha, Ana Hélia; Silva Coutinho, Nair Portela; da Silva, Elza Lima
- Abstract
Objective: to report the experience of a health education action as a strategy to prevent sexually transmitted infections in professionals in the Electricity Distribution Sector. Method: this is an experience report on a health education practice carried out in December 2021 with professionals from the Electricity Distribution Sector, in a municipality in the northeast. The elaboration took place in three stages: situational diagnostic assessment, promotion of health education and post-educational assessment. Result: health education practices were developed through rapid testing for HIV, Syphilis, Hepatitis B and C, guidance on the main forms of transmission and prevention, pre-test and post-test counseling and the application of post-test evaluation. educational action. Conclusion: health education actions are important tools for promoting knowledge about ways to prevent and treat sexually transmitted infections.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; PREVENTION of sexually transmitted diseases; HEALTH education; LOCAL government; ELECTRICITY; PRE-tests &; post-tests; HEALTH literacy; HEALTH promotion
- Publication
Saúde Coletiva, 2022, Vol 12, Issue 76, p10566
- ISSN
1806-3365
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36489/saudecoletiva.2022v12i76p10566-10575