The 130th Annual Meeting of APHA

Abstract #49137

Joel B. Leiva, MPH, Dean of Graduate School, Universidan Peruana Union, UPeU Km 19, Carretera Central Correo Nana, Lima, Lima 08, Peru, 511-350-0060, jbleiva@upeu.edu.pe

The Seventh day Adventist Church is the second largest church in Peru, after the Catholic. It's membership is more than half a million of believers. They are strongly against the premarital sex, and the extramarital sex. The peruvian data show that at least 33 % of all newborn come form adolescent mother, and that most of them aren't married. The Adventist Church doesn't have any data about the teenager and young adult among them. They are not instructing them in sexual behavior, thy only teach them no to do it before the mariage. The fact is that every year more than 1,000 of them are expelled from the church for premarital pregnancy. This research is looking to know what the youth believe, what they feel, and what they do with their sexuality. We selected the research population in singles member of the church, between 15 and 28 years old in Lima. The cense give us 30.102, then we take a sample of 602. To that sample we rise the information to know their reality.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify what the teenagers and young adult believe.
• Identify which kind of attitudes they have.
• Identify what behavior are they practising.
• Develop a program to the teenagers and the young adult to take decisions with enough information and freedom.

Keywords: Sexual Risk Behavior, Health Education

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.