Conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas sobre infecciones de trasmisión sexual en la población LGBTI Cuenca, 2017

Abstract

Background: sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are relevant pathologies in public health matter with a million contagions daily. The stigma over this, delay early reach of attention and can be delayed even more in vulnerable minorities such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersex (GLBTI) people. We recognize that a suitable knowledge about these infections can prevent and identify their manifestations ahead of time what results in opportune reach of medical assessment. General Objective: to identify knowledge, attitudes and practices about sexually transmitted diseases on the GLBTI population in Cuenca, 2017 Materials and methods: observational quantitative-descriptive study. 60 auto identified GLBTI people who meet the inclusion criteria were interviewed. It was applied a socio-demographic survey which also contained a knowledge, attitudes and practice previously validated survey about STD; it was used a form validated in other study. Data was tabulated using Microsoft Excel application and were analyzed with SPSS. The statistic analysis was made using frequency measures for the qualitative variables, and mean and standard deviation for the quantitative variables.

Results: The most frequent age group was 18 to 22 years, 61,7% were men, 60% had high level of instruction and 86,7% were single people. 66.7% defined themselves as homosexual. 55% auto defined as male. About levels of knowledge attitudes and practices about STD, it was determined that 50%, 70% and 51,7% respectively were regular. Conclusions: levels of knowledge, attitudes and practices about STD were regular.