High School Students and Autonomous Access to Information and Preventive Materials in Basic Health Units

• Grant number: 22/12983-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date until: November 01, 2022
• End date until: July 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Interdisciplinary Subjects
• Principal Investigator: Vera Silvia Facciolla Paiva
• Grantee: Marcos Alberto de Andrade Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Psicologia (IP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 17/25950-2 - Youth vulnerabilities to STI/HIV and to dating violence: evaluating a human rights based psychosocial intervention, AP.TEM

Abstract

This IC ("Iniciação Científica") plan of activities is part of the thematic project # FAPESP 2017_25950-2 "Vulnerabilities of young people to STI/HIV and dating violence: evaluation of psychosocial interventions based on human rights." The objective of this project is to understand the barriers and facilitators for the autonomous use of health services from the perspective of high school students in the territory where they live and study. The participants students are at the ETEC Carolina Carinhato Sampaio, located in the South Zone of São Paulo. We will discuss the students itinerary for accessing health services and how they assess that their autonomy and right to sexual and reproductive health is supported by the health center and its professionals.