Open AccessSociodemographic profile of blind people: associations with knowledge, attitude and practice about sexually transmitted infections
Author(s) -
Andressa Kaline Ferreira Araújo,
Inacia Sátiro Xavier de França,
Alexsandro Silva Coura,
Sérgio Ribeiro dos Santos,
Ana Paula Andrade Ramos,
Lorita Marlena Freitag Pagliuca
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rev rene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2175-6783
pISSN - 1517-3852
DOI - 10.15253/2175-6783.2015000500016
Subject(s) - marital status , medicine , family medicine , descriptive statistics , chi square test , sexually active , demography , psychology , population , environmental health , statistics , mathematics , sociology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv)
Objective: to analyze associations among sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge, attitude and practice ofblind people about sexually transmitted infections. Methods: descriptive transversal study with a quantitative approach.Participants were 36 blind individuals. The questionnaire Knowledge, attitude and practice about sexually transmittedinfections was used. Absolute and relative frequencies were calculated. There were Chi-square test and chi-square Exact.Results: most participants are elderly, unmarried, with elementary school and not working. Knowledge, attitude andpractice about sexually transmitted infections are inadequate (p<0.05). Religion (p<0.001), work (p<0.001), not workingreason (p<0.001) and education (p=0.003) had associations with the attitude about sexually transmitted infections. Gender(p<0.001), marital status (p=0.019) and education (p=0.020) had associations with practice. There was no associationbetween sociodemographic characteristics and knowledge. Conclusion: sociodemographic characteristics may interferewith the attitude and practice of blind people about sexually transmitted infections, and the nurse should consider thesecharacteristics in professional practice with those subjects.