METHODS. The study was descriptive, with a not random selection of people. It was implemented a survey of 6 questions to 76 residents of
RESULTS. The average age of respondents was 31.9 years (SD 12.3, MIN 12, MAX 66), 71.6% were women. Only 21.1% said that he had ever received information on rubella, and the 50% of them came through television and 18.8% in their community.
The 71.1% could not explain what rubella was. Of those who were able to respond (28.9%), only 14.8% identified it as a viral illness and 25.9% acknowledged that might affect the fetus in pregnant women with sequels such as deafness, mental retardation or deformities.
About signs and symptoms were obtained responses only in 23.7%. Of these, identified fever (44.8%) followed by skin rashes (27.6%). Vaccination was identified by 63.2% of the evaluated as the way to prevent rubella.
CONCLUSIONS. Despite the wide communication on rubella during the vaccination campaign, the majority of the habitants of human settlements had not received information about the disease and had a great ignorance about the same. However, most identified vaccination as a method of prevention. milagrosbcarrasco@hotmail.com