Abordagens utilizadas na assistência de enfermagem ás ist- revisão integrativa de literatura.

Abstract

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are one of the most common public health problems in Brazil and the world, besides being one of the facilitating factors for HIV infection and possible development of AIDS and can lead to serious complications and even to death. This group of diseases is transmitted mainly by sex without condom with infected persons and generally manifest themselves by means of wounds, vaginal discharge, blisters or warts. This is an integrative review of literature that aimed to know the nursing approach in the care of STI according to scientific production, and had as its guiding question "What is the Nursing approach attention to STIs according to scientific production ? ". The descriptors used were "Service" and "Nursing" and "STD", as well as their respective descriptors in English and Spanish ("Nursing Care" and "STD" and "Atención de Enfermería" and "Enfermedades Sexual Transmission"). After full reading of selected works have identified three categories, which are: 1- Health Education as the main form of approach to STIs, 2 - women as a focus of attention of nursing; 3 - prejudice as an obstacle to the quality of life for infected individuals. at the end of work, there was a deficiency in relation to works that focus on the male public, the elderly and adolescents, as it was realized that nursing has left out important and focused assignments much in health education that despite its importance, can not be limited to it alone. in addition, assistance is still suffering too much interference of the concepts formed by each professional, which ends up hindering the assistance to people with STIs and therefore their quality of life.