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Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública
2002
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- Con quién hablan los adolescentes mexicanos sobre el SIDA Cecilia Gayet Carlos Magis Patricia Uribe Carolina A. Rosas Salud Mexico sex education key words: adolescence acquired immunodeficiency syndrome Objective. To establish whether certain characteristics ofthe young influence their choice of people with whom todiscuss AIDS. Material and Methods. A national surveywas conducted in 1997 by the Consejo Nacional para laPrevención y Control del SIDA (CONASIDA, MexicanCouncil for AIDS Prevention and Control). Study subjectswere 4886 male and female 15-19 year-old teenagers.Multinomial logistic regression was used to analyze data.Results. A model including the variables sex, sexual activity,work conditions, and fathers schooling level, turned out tobe significant and highly predictive of people with whomteenagers discuss AIDS, as compared to teenagers speakingwith no one. Male teenagers discuss AIDS with theirfathers more than female teenagers, and female teenagersdiscuss AIDS more with their mothers. Sexually activeteenagers discuss AIDS more with their friends and lesswith their teachers than sexually inactive teenagers. Thegreater schooling level the father has, the more people teenagershave with whom to discuss AIDS and the more theydiscuss AIDS at home, compared to teenagers with fatherswithout schooling. Conclusions. Differentiated sexualeducation training strategies should be designed inaccordance with subpopulations characteristics. The Englishversion of this paper is available at: http://www.insp.mx/salud/index.html 2002 artículo científico 0036-3634 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10644206 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=106 Salud Pública de México application/pdf Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública Salud Pública de México (México) Num.2 Vol.44