Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention

• Grant number: 17/25950-2
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2019
• End date: September 30, 2025
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Psychology - Social Psychology
• Principal Investigator: Vera Silvia Facciolla Paiva
• Grantee: Vera Silvia Facciolla Paiva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: São Paulo
• Principal investigators: Ivan França Junior ; José Ricardo de Carvalho Mesquita Ayres ; Marcos Roberto Vieira Garcia
• Principal investigators: Cristiane Gonçalves da Silva
• Associated researchers: Claudia Renata dos Santos Barros ; Cristiane da Silva Cabral ; Cristiane Gonçalves da Silva ; Deivison Mendes Faustino ; Eliana Miura Zucchi ; Gabriela Junqueira Calazans ; Gustavo Venturi Junior ; Júlio Assis Simões ; Luis Guilherme Galeão da Silva ; Macarena Urrestarazu Devincenzi ; Marcos Roberto Vieira Garcia ; Maria Carla Corrochano ; Pamela Cristina Bianchi ; Patrícia Leme de Oliveira Borba ; Reinaldo José Gianini
• Associated research grant(s): 24/21457-3 - 7th International Conference on Youth Mental Health, AR.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 24/05503-5 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 24/04587-0 - YOUTH VULNERABILITIES TO STI/HIV AND TO DATING VIOLENCE: EVALUATING A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION, BP.TT; 24/04950-8 - The Role of Teachers in Youth Literacy in the Prevention of STI/AIDS and Sexual Health in Relation to School Regulatory Contents, Laws and Regulations in São Paulo, BP.IC; + associated scholarships 23/09973-3 - Transphobia and promoting the rights of transgender students in the school territory: the influence of literature on the trajectory of trans youth, BP.IC; 23/07016-1 - Research on mental health support in SUS in the territory of ETEC Rubens de Faria e Souza, BP.TT; 23/07027-3 - Research on mental health support in the SUS in the territory of the EE Prof. Julio Bierrenbach Lima, BP.TT; 23/03495-2 - Homophobia in school territory: scenes experienced by gay boys in high school, BP.IC; 22/14998-2 - Adolescents and Youths' Mental Health: interfaces between care, emancipation, and health education., BP.PD; 23/02236-3 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 22/15685-8 - Through vulnerabilities, needs and potentialities for the comprehensive healthcare of young people: learning and shared inventions en pandemic times from a approach psychosocial and multicultural humanr rights(MHR), BP.PD; 22/15493-1 - Pornography consumption among High School girls: implications for prevention, BP.IC; 22/12592-9 - YOUTH VULNERABILITIES TO STI/HIV AND TO DATING VIOLENCE: EVALUATING A HUMAN RIGHTS BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION, BP.TT; 22/14291-6 - The embrace of adolescent boys in primary health care units in the territory of the favela of Heliópolis: the perspective of LGBTQIA+ users, BP.IC; 22/12983-8 - High School Students and Autonomous Access to Information and Preventive Materials in Basic Health Units, BP.IC; 22/05778-9 - Ai que bixa, ai que baixa, ai que bruxa: gender, sexuality and musical culture in the daily lives of young people from the periphery of São Paulo, BP.IC; 22/11757-4 - High school students and the production of graphic and audiovisual materials for HIV/AIDS prevention in times of COVID-19 in the Heliópolis region, BP.IC; 22/09143-8 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.EP; 22/06008-2 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 22/06023-1 - Pregnancy and maternity during high school: experiences from young students of a public school, BP.IC; 22/06030-8 - Ways of life of young black people from a technical school: masculinities, experiences, tensions and mediations, BP.IC; 22/05489-7 - Between school and health service: developments for a comprehensive care approach for young people, BP.PD; 22/01653-7 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 22/00809-3 - Social relationships and vulnerabilities of LGBTQIA+ young in high school during the COVID-19 pandemic, BP.IC; 21/14274-1 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.EP; 21/14428-9 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.EP; 21/12275-0 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.EP; 21/12757-5 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.EP; 21/12798-3 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.EP; 21/05939-0 - High school youth starting in scientific researh: highlighting theirs trajectories of life, schooling and future plans, BP.IC; 21/10088-9 - The construction of responses to the IST'S/HIV and COVID-19 epidemics with adolescents and young people from São Paulo's peripheries, BP.IC; 21/05308-0 - The internet as a youth territory: exist and resist in networks, BP.IC; 21/05589-9 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 21/06215-5 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 21/06604-1 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 21/03465-0 - Youth, relationships and prevention in COVID times, BP.IC; 21/02227-9 - Socio-spatial aspects at the vulnerabilities of young people, BP.IC; 21/03314-2 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 20/01264-5 - Information and communication technologies in sexual socialization and educational strategies to promote sexual and reproductive health in public high schools, BP.PD; 20/01129-0 - Intimate partner sexual violence, gender norms and mental health during high school: contributions to the implementation and process analysis of a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.PD; 19/27772-0 - Sexual and reproductive rights of young people in high school in times of growing conservatism, BP.PD; 19/25251-2 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 19/23727-0 - Internet, APPs and digital platforms for relationships: socialization, sexuality and gender among high school students, BP.IC; 19/19017-7 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 19/19827-9 - Family, ethnic-racial, religious and genders diversity in schools of Sorocaba-SP, BP.IC; 19/19524-6 - Youth vulnerabilities to STIs/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights-based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 19/14637-7 - Diversity and cultural practices among young students of Santos / São Paulo public schools: gender, gender identity and sexual orientation, BP.IC; 19/15855-8 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, BP.TT; 19/09293-7 - Family diversity in São Paulo schools: race-ethnicity and religiosity, BP.IC; 19/11745-3 - Family, ethnic-racial and religious diversity in schools: prevention of discrimination and violence, BP.IC - associated scholarships

Abstract

Teenagers are disproportionately impacted by the epidemics of STIs, HIV and syphilis in Brazil. Although human rights-based sexuality education has been a key part of the interventions that have controlled the growth of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil for more than a decade, sexuality education is facing a critical backlash. Ensuring the sexual and reproductive health of young people demands urgent innovation and reconceptualization of what makes sustainable and effective sexuality education programs, and evaluation of the processes through which they can make a difference and be effective. Our project focuses on a Multicultural Human Rights Sexuality Education program based on articulated interventions in public high schools and health centers in the school territory. A two-arm cluster randomized trial (CRT) and a qualitative process assessment will evaluate our intervention. The intervention study will involve students in 20 public high schools (10 schools in the control group and 10 schools in the intervention group) and 10 primary health care centers. This mixed methods intervention study intends to show an increase in safer sex and a decrease in sexual and gender violence and rights discrimination among the participant students, approximately 3500 first graders (14-16 years olds), followed for almost two years. Permanent participation of the school, community and health professionals is a crucial component of combination prevention to facilitate high school students' access to condoms and other contraception tools, emergency contraception, Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP), and testing and treatment for STIs. A multi-institutional and highly experienced interdisciplinary research team - NEPAIDS-USP and its international collaborators - will develop the study in Sorocaba and Santos/Guarujá, two medium-sized cities in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

CRISTIANE GONÇALVES DA SILVA; VANESSA JORGE LEITE; JÚLIA CLARA DE PONTES; FERNANDA FARIAS DOS SANTOS; JOÃO VITOR SALDANHA DE OLIVEIRA; VITÓRIA LOPES HIRAISHI; SASHA CRUZ ALVES PEREIRA; JÚLIO ASSIS SIMÕES. Dimensões do assédio na escola: diálogos sobre gênero com jovens estudantes de ensino médio de São Paulo/Brasil. Interface (Botucatu), v. 27, 2023-05-01. (17/25950-2)

JOSÉ RICARDO DE CARVALHO MESQUITA AYRES; VALÉRIA MONTEIRO MENDES; ISABELLA SILVA DE ALMEIDA; MACARENA URRESTARAZU DEVINCENZI; JAMILE SILVA GUIMARÃES; GABRIELA JUNQUEIRA CALAZANS; PAMELA CRISTINA BIANCHI; ALBERTO SHODI YAMASHIRO. Comprehensive health care for adolescents and young people from the perspective of primary care professionals, San Pablo, Brazil. Salud Colectiva, v. 21, 2025-05-30. (17/25950-2)

BRISA CAMPOS; BRUNA TCHALEKIAN; VERA PAIVA. VIOLÊNCIA CONTRA A MULHER: VULNERABILIDADE PROGRAMÁTICA EM TEMPOS DE SARS-COV-2/ COVID-19 EM SÃO PAULO. Psicologia & Sociedade, v. 32, 2020-09-04. (17/25950-2)