A importância da vacinação - concepção e conhecimento entre estudantes do ensino médio

Abstract

Vaccination makes the immune system of the organism sesitive, causing it to create special defenses and antibodies against a series of diseases that may occur and result in serious damage or even death to the affected person. Even though advances in the field of vaccination are notorious, currently some media have favored the dissemination of the so-called Fake News, which state that vaccines are not effecive and especially not a safe way in order to prevent infectious diseases. Such information seems so true that nonexpert people end up passing this information on to their families. Thus, teenagers and children may grow up doubting about the potential of vaccines. The main aim of this work is to evaluate the knowledge of young high school students about vaccines, as well as to bring important information to them. A questionnaire will be developed and applied containing: sociodemographic data, clinical and acceptance data and general knowledge about vaccines. Data were collected from 113 young people from high school of whom 62.8% were male and 38.2% were female. There were 68 students from public institutions and 45 from a single private institution. Among the studied people, there were not any people who claimed to be against vaccination and analyzing general knowledge it was observed that students from private schools had a smaller margin of error compared to students from public schools. Thus, it is hoped that this research will serve as a reference for new studies on this topic, so that more and more young people will become aware of the importance of vaccination, which may bring a positive result in vaccination coverage.