Emotional and social representations of future teachers about sexually transmitted diseases

University of Huelva, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Campus el Carmen, Avenida 3 de marzo s/ n, 21071 Huelva, Spain

^a Corresponding author: carmen.cejudo@dedu.uhu.es
^b Corresponding author: celia.corchuelo@dedu.uhu.es

Abstract

Health Education programs for young people have drastically increased in recent years in Spanish universities. In part, this is due to the fact that new cases of infection of a sexually transmitted disease continue happening, especially at this stage, and universities as an educational space in which a large number of young people are concentrated, must address this problem. Training young students in promoting healthy sexual habits will prevent not only new infections, but also facilitate the acquisition of competences in the students of the health and socio-educational areas, necessary for their later professional development. This research provides some information about the knowledge and attitudes of students of educational qualifications about HIV/AIDS, with particular relevance to the emotions and social representations that the students have about this fact and that can interfere in their lack of information making them more vulnerable to the disease.