Sexual and reproductive health in students of night shift

Salud sexual y reproductiva en estudiantes de jornada nocturna

This research proposes the following general objective: to evaluate the change in knowledge attributable to an educational workshop on sexual and reproductive health in a specific population and as specific objectives: 1. To determine the level of knowledge of students of the SUA educational center before and after implemented the educational workshop. 2. Compare the level of knowledge in the pretest and posttest in order to identify changes attributable to the educational workshop. To carry out this workshop, one-and-a-half-hour instruction sessions were held where topics such as: self-esteem, self-image, sexual and reproductive health, genitality, sex, sexuality, sexual and reproductive rights and family planning were taken into account. The methodology used was initially a dynamics of sensitization after exposure with video beam and for the topic of demonstrative technical family planning; at the end of this, doubts were clarified and questions were answered. To evaluate the change in knowledge, a pretest and posttest were taken as the basis, with the same questions, in the result of this workshop an increase in positive responses was found especially in topics such as family planning to questions: is the Norplant hormonal implant placed ?, it was found an increase of 52.77% achieved by making an indirect measurement an impact of 28.72%. It is important to bear in mind that one of the limitations of this research was the time it did not allow to measure the fixation of knowledge in the population under study with a medium and long-term post-test.