Representaciones sociales de la salud sexual de adolescentes sordos y oyentes en la ciudad de Bogotá

Resumen

Objective. To describe and analyze the structure and content of the social representations of sexual health in \nthree groups of adolescents: those who are deaf, those who use Colombian sign language (SLC), those with \nhearing, and deaf users of spoken Spanish, with the aim of considering the sexual health of populations in \nconditions of vulnerability, and their application in the area of public health. Method. A process-oriented \ninterpretative qualitative study was carried out, which employed analytical techniques using networks of \nassociations, interviews and drawings. Results. Different representations of sexual health were found among \nthe adolescents evaluated: those who were deaf, and users of SLC focused their representations on care of the body, illness and sexual pleasure. Those with hearing, for their part, construct representations around the \nprevention of sexually transmitted disease and affective love, while the deaf adolescents who use Spanish do so \nin relation to education, affective love and conventional relationships. Conclusion. The recognition of different \nsocial representations of sexual health among hearing and deaf adolescents has become a challenge for \npublic health to the extent that it requires the recognition of needs and services in this field from a differential \nperspective. The sexual health of persons in situations of vulnerability is a matter of human rights, which \nquestion the way in which policies are formed nowadays, above all in cases where identity as a basic element \nof the sexuality of these persons is unknown.