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Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr 2016; 32 (2)

Intervention for empowering social players to promote sexual health in preschoolers

Díaz LG, Espín AAM

Language: Spanish
References: 14
Page: 215-223
PDF size: 152.98 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Introduction: Sexual health promotion has received great theoretical attention by public health. Empowerment theory has been an important referent for that, in terms of its capacity to elicit taboos under the day by day processes of production and reproduction of meaning in sexuality.
Objective: Study shows an intervention in Artemisa municipality in 2014, to empower social actors related to preschool children education, in terms to give proper answers to their sexuality manifestations.
Method: A participative action-research was design. 39 social actors were chosen by intentional sampling. As techniques were used questionnaire, observation, group interview, focal group and dramatization. The three dimensions of empowerment were evaluated before, after and six months later of the intervention. Qualitative analysis of information was made.
Results: The intervention leads to appropriate empowerment of 26 social actors (81,2 %). Five actors (15,6 %), classified as middle empowered and one actor was not empowered. All the actors that finished the intervention expressed satisfaction with it. Six months later 20 actors keep adequate empowerment and eight, middle empowerment.
Conclusions: The intervention shows efficacy to empower involved social actors, because achieves substantives changes on the three dimensions of empowerment, which keep six months later.


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