Factors associated with early onset of sexual activity gender in students of the IEP Mariscal Castilla – Huancayo

Abstract

The investigationhas been carried out in the IEP Mariscal Castilla (mixed School) of Huancayo Province , district of El Tambo which can be considered as a representative sample of adolescent population. Adolescence gets great meaning by the multiple and complex cognitive, physical and psicosociales changes that occur in this phase, as a consequence, sexuality significantly influences the way of life of adolescents and results in the problems of health, that can appear just at that stage or in the successive phases of their life cycle. Therefore it turns out to be imposible passing over to consider sexuality in the context of integral health of adolescents, because of the repercussion it has in their way of life, and to incorporate it as an intervention strategy in the education of sexuality early and in the framework of the promotion and continuous prevention of health through the life cycle. The variables studied were sex, who do they live with, age of starting sexual relations, who has debuted sexually with, media of acquisition of information on known contraceptive methods. The results obtained showed a decrease of the age of startting sexual relations; the predominant age is 15 years , but it is observed in smaller percentages that initiation of a sexual act with another person happens in less than 13 to 14 years, whether man or woman. As for known contraceptive methods, the one that occupies the major percentage is condom and sexual abstinence. One of the arrived conclusions is that the main way to obtain the know how about sexuality is by means of school, family, friends, personnel of health and internet.