Sexual behavior according to undergraduate students: perspective of cross-cultural nursing and intersectional framing

• Published in: Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem Vol. 76; no. 6; pp. e20220786 - 8
• Main Authors: Melo, Laércio Deleon de, Spindola, Thelma, Arreguy-Sena, Cristina, Krempser, Paula, Brandão, Juliana de Lima, Costa, Cristiane Maria Amorim, Taroco, Felipe Eduardo, Pinto, Paulo Ferreira
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Brazil Associação Brasileira de Enfermagem 01-01-2023
• Subjects: Adolescent; Brazil; College students; Condoms; Cross-Cultural Comparison; Cross-Cultural Nursing; Culture; Data collection; Education; Ethics; Female; Focus groups; Gender; Humans; Immune system; Infections; Intersectional Framing; Male; Maternal & child health; Nursing care; Nursing theory; Original; Pregnancy; Qualitative research; Sexual Behavior; Sexual health; Sexual Partners; Sexually transmitted diseases; Sexually Transmitted Diseases - prevention & control; Sexually Transmitted Infections; Software; STD; Students - psychology; Young Adult; Young adults; Brazil; Rio de Janeiro Brazil
• ISSN: 0034-7167; 1984-0446
• DOI: 10.1590/0034-7167-2022-0786

to discuss undergraduate students' sexual behavior from the perspective of social markers and cross-cultural care proposed by Madeleine Leininger.
descriptive-exploratory qualitative research, with a theoretical-philosophical foundation in the Transcultural Theory. Convenience sample was composed of 57 young people from two universities in Rio de Janeiro. The focus groups' content were analyzed lexically using the IRAMUTEQ software.
four classes emerged: Young people's sexual scripts: between the fear of an unplanned pregnancy and the risk of exposure to sexually transmitted infections; Affective relationships: trust in steady sexual partners, apparent sense of security and disuse of condoms; Sexual practices, gender and cultural determinants: distinction in men's and women's role; Sexual partnerships, negotiation of condom use and vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections.
challenges are perceived for the attention to undergraduate students' sexual health, who verbalized risky sexual behaviors due to sociocultural vulnerabilities.