A nurse is providing information about safe-sex practices. Which of the following levels of pre-vention is being implemented?

a. Primary prevention
b. Secondary prevention
c. Tertiary prevention
d. Assessment


ANS: A
Primary prevention refers to those interventions aimed at preventing the occurrence of disease, injury, or disability—providing information about safe sex practices. Secondary prevention fo-cuses on early detection and screening. Tertiary prevention focuses on treatment and rehabilita-tion. Assessment is not a level of prevention.

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