title: [General aspects of the sexuality of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis, cared for at basic health units in Ribeirão Preto-SP].
abstract: This descriptive study was carried out in order to identify and analysing the knowledge that the patients with pulmonary tuberculosis have about the disease and the experiences which they have passed through; to identify some aspects related to their sexuality's changing after acquiring the pulmonary tuberculosis and characterizing the living experiences toward their family, the friends'/relatives' reactions and the emerging feelings. Fifty sexually active patients were interviewed. The results showed that 15 (30.0%) patients with pulmonary tuberculosis did not have any knowledge about the disease and 32 (64.0%) did not know how to prevent it. Among the fifty patients interviewed, 29 (58.0%) have realized negative reactions. The pulmonary tuberculosis do not interferes directly only in these sexual and social people's lives, but also in their partners social lives. This fact has been contributing in order to decrease their sexual relations often.
authors.affiliation: Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bertazone E do
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Gir
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001938:Brazil; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D012736:Sex Education; D019529:Sexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000523:psychology*