Cultural beliefs about Sexually Transmitted Infections in adult women and men of Guadalajara and San Luis Potosí
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Objective: to analyze cultural beliefs about Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) in Mexican adults. Method: a study was carried out based on the cultural consensus method through the techniques of free lists and pile sorts to 181 adults from the cities of Guadalajara and San Luis Potosí, which involved coding the information and carrying out statistical procedures. Results: the words most associated by the participants to STIs were illness, HIV and neglect; while the less frequent ones were protection, infections and pain. The conglomerates showed the presence of mainly three dimensions in relation to the STI concept: care and protection, causes and consequences. Conclusions: the actions directed to the attention and the prevention of STIs must consider the sociocultural context of the populations; because the beliefs, the meanings and the knowledge delimit in an important way the practices of self-care and prevention.
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