title: [Survey on risky sexual behavior and sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent students from Havana City, 1996].
abstract: The observed increase of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) in Cuba aroused the interest of carrying out a study aimed at exploring risky sexual behaviours and attitudes, and histories of STD. A crosswise descriptive study was undertaken using a randomized sample taken from the universe of adolescent students in the City of Havana during 1995-96 school year. The sample was made up by 2,793 teenagers aged 11-19 years (1,370 females and 1,423 males). Previously trained experts linked to this field collected data by means of a structured interview which had been drawn up for this end. It was confirmed that more than half of adolescent students did not use condom in their sexual intercourse 57% had more than one sexual partner along the year, 40% believed it was difficult to keep only one partner whereas 35% had more than one sexual partner at the same time. Risk and protected sexual habits were noticed, with 39% for oral-genital and 21.4% for genital-anal. 22% for the interviewed adolescent said they had histories of STD.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Clinicoquirúrgico Luis Díaz Soto.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cortés Alfaro
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: García Roche
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hernández Sánchez
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Monterrey Gutiérrez
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fuentes Abreu
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003462:Cuba; D003625:Data Collection; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014504:Urban Health