Impact assessment of the Health Program in schools

Abstract

The theme of sexuality is considered as a cross-cutting issue to be worked on basic education and gain social relevance when cases AIDS increase in on young people of Brazil. This study aims to evaluate the Health Program in schools - PSE, with comparison of four public schools, two with joining the program (experimental group) and two without accession (control group). For a start, we built and tested a scale of attitudes and psychometric prevention of sexually transmitted infections - STIs. After that we conducted a survey with 400 high school students, and six interviews with program managers. The managers demonstrated good knowledge of the program and its objectives, but the implementation of the same lapse. Students not confirm the performance of activities provided in schools and no significant differences were found between the knowledge of the experimental group and the control group on the prevention of STIs, prevailing taboos and misinformation.