[Access to public health services and HIV prevention: experimentation of participated planning with adolescents].
The present study reports strategies and approaches found by adolescents through participated planning aiming at facilitating access of adolescents to HIV prevention services. Meetings and focus groups were carried out in secondary schools to collect information on attitudes, perceptions and opinions of adolescents on the way they use health services, the factors which are seen as obstacles to access, and the best strategies to overcome such obstacles. Analysis of the information gathered was carried out using content analysis. Among other results gathered it was evident that the social representation of AIDS was the major factor which underlay the decision of adolescents to avoid these specific health services and that taking part in participated planning allowed them to feel less distant to this illness which they initially felt did not concern them.
Spizzichino
Laura
L
Unità Operativa AIDS, Azienda Sanitaria Locale RM E, Via Catone 20, 00192 Roma. lspizzi@bigfoot.com
Pedone
Giovanna
G
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006266:Health Education; D006297:Health Services Accessibility / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male