Educational intervention for the prevention of vaginal trichomonosis in medical students

Abstract

An educational intervention was carried out at the University of Medical Sciences of Guantánamo to raise the level of knowledge about vaginal trichomonosis and its prevention. The study population consisted of 45 students of the second year of the Medicine career, the sample in this case coincides with the population. Theoretical, empirical and mathematical methods were used: logical history, analysis, functional structural systemic, document analysis, and others. Among the analyzed variables: age, sex, level of knowledge about vaginal Trichomonosis and its mode of prevention. There was a significant increase in the level of knowledge about vaginal Trichomonosis, the need to have risk perception and to carry out work to promote and prevent STIs, generalizing this study in other areas of the municipality.