Sexual orientation: Knowledges and needs of teachers from a public school from Goiania-GO

Abstract

The adolescence is marked by great organic transformations, cognitives, sociocultural and affectives exposing the adolescent to many risks. Among these, the vulnerability in front of STD like AIDS is a reality. The school has a fundamental role in the student’s formation, mainly about the informations in the sphere of the sexual education an sexual orientation. The study has as objective to check the knowledge of the teachers about sexual education and STD prevention, as well as to identify their level of dificulty to lead with this thematic in school environment. It is one exploratory descriptive research with quantitative approach, whose data were obtained through a semi-structured questionaire answered by 28 teachers from a public school in the city of Goiania/GO. The results show that in spite of considering the importance of the subject, most of teachers don’t feel capable to work the thematic sexual education/ orientation with the adolescent students. 61% of the teachers never realized any educative work with the students in the school environment and only 39% their yet worked utilizing strategies different. In front of the obtained results, it becomes urgent the implementation of educative strategies to the docents capacitation about the thematic Sexual education.

Key words: Sexual behavior; Sexuality; Adolescent; Health Education; Public Health Nursing.