Vulnerabilidade relacionada às infecções sexualmente transmissíveis em pessoas com deficiência física

Abstract

Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI) constitute a global public health problem. Each year, 340 million people are affected by some kind of STI. Incidence and prevalence control of HIV/aids cases is not complete and prevention, and treatment initiatives have been classified as partially successful. Therefore, a greater emphasis on awareness is necessary so as to prevent the development of new or existing cases and to avoid progress to more severe conditions. For which levels of prevention configure effectively, it is necessary to have knowledge about the vulnerable conditions that contribute to the onset of diseases and other complications. Considering that disabled people live in constant situations that might expose them to increased vulnerability. Therefore, there has been a search to analyze the conditions that increase dimensions of vulnerability related to sexually transmitted infections in disable individuals. In a transversal study with meaningful approach held in 2015 in an Association for the Disabled in Campina Grande/PB, Brazil, 98 individuals participated, thus answering a form on the dimensions of vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections. We conducted the chi-square test, Fisher and contingency coefficient and prevalence ratio. We identified association was found among the occurrence of sexually transmitted infections with the number of partners (p = 0.020), believing to have few partners as prevention (p = 0.044), believing low hygiene to be as a risk factor, age (p = 0.007) kind of disability (p = 0.007) and being conducted to medical appointment with urologist (p = 0.030). This study concluded that sexually transmitted infections in people with physical disabilities were associated with the conditions of the three dimensions of vulnerability. By characterizing vulnerable conditions, it is possible to follow a specific prevention linked to their individual, social and health reality.