Conhecimento e vulnerabilidade de professores universitários do sexo masculino às doenças sexualmente transmissíveis

Abstract

The male population has high morbidity and mortality rates and lower life expectancy, despite these male rates assume a significant burden of morbidity and mortality in the profiles in relation to infectious diseases, especially Sexually Transmitted Diseases/HIV/SIDA, it is observed that the presence of men in services of primary health care is also lower than that of women. In this sense, the present work aims to analyze the knowledge and the vulnerability of male teachers in the face of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and identify barriers to condom use. This is a qualitative descriptive study, conducted in the month from March to May 2012 in a private university in the city of Fortaleza, Ceará. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, recorded postconsent with 12 male university professors. The analysis occurred categorization using step thematic analysis resulting in three categories: behavior and risk, multiple partners and unsafe sex and motivation for not using condoms. Participants knowledge about the vulnerability to different types of risk behaviors that are inserted, forms of prevention and unsafe sex. The main form of prevention mentioned by participants was the use of condoms, but some barriers listed were not to use them, as the issue of confidence in a steady partner, the influence of liquor and miss the pleasure. It can be considered that the professors know the Sexually Transmitted Diseases preventive practices, but this knowledge does not confer protection by placing them in a vulnerable situation.