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Effectiveness of educational intervention among seropositive women about knowledge about HIV sexual transmission
Regina de Souza Alves1, Laelson Rochelle Milanês Sousa2, Josely Pinto de Moura3
1Universidade de São Paulo. Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.
Objectives:
to assess the effectiveness of a group and telephone educational intervention with seropositive women about knowledge about HIV sexual transmission prevention.
Methods:
a quasi-experimental before-and-after study, carried out with 151 women living with HIV in a Specialized Care Service in a Brazilian capital. The educational intervention was carried out in three moments, with the assessment being carried out before the first and after the last moment.
Results:
97.4% of study participants were cisgender women aged between 18 and 58 years; 55.6% considered themselves brown; and 32.5% of interviewees had elementary school. Regarding knowledge about HIV sexual transmission, in 78.5% of items, there was an association (p<0.005) with increased participants' knowledge after receiving the intervention.
Conclusions:
the educational intervention helped to increase the knowledge of women living with HIV about the sexual transmission of the infection.
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