%0 Journal Article
%T Conocimiento sobre el virus del papiloma humano en estudiantes de enfermer¨ªa
%A Ortunio Calabres
%A Magaly Solmar
%A Guevara Rivas
%A Harold
%A Herrera Leonett
%A Edimar
%A Jim¨¦nez Rojas
%A Karelis
%A Cardozo Castellano
%A Rosa
%A S¨¢nchez Pilimur
%A Katherine
%J Revista de Obstetricia y Ginecolog¨ªa de Venezuela
%D 2009
%I Sociedad de Obstetricia y Ginecolog¨ªa de Venezuela
%X objective: to determine the knowledge on human papilloma virus in students of nursery. methods: descriptive investigation. a questionnaire was applied to 137 students that included age, origin, exercise of sexual function, sex partners, etiology of, transmission way, clinic and prevention. setting: facultad de ciencias de la salud de la universidad de carabobo results: the age was 18¡À0.5 years. it prevailed significantly the feminine (92 % versus 8 %, p=0.000) sex and the students that didn£¿t refer to have more than a couple (87.6 % versus 6.6 %, p=0.000). more than a half of the women had a very good or excellent knowledge on human papilloma virus, being this significantly associated with responsible sexual performance in both genders. conclusion: it£¿s recommended to reinforce the campaigns of information and formation to the adolescents regarding human papilloma virus.
%K human papilloma virus
%K adolescents
%K knowledge.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0048-77322009000300006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en