Práticas educativas em saúde no ambiente escolar: a importância da sensibilização para o controle da hepatite C

Abstract

Brazil is experiencing a time when many adolescents are living with diseases, mainly viral and sexually transmitted, generating a concern not only for healt professionals, but also for those in the area of education, as it involves hundreds of young people who are infected and they get sick because they do not have information about contagion and the prevention of some of them. Thus, the school started to be considered a favorable space for the help of teachers (and, if necessary, health professionals) who present themselves as important figures in this process, acting dynamically, by knowing the reality of their students and taking appropriate information to them regarding the appearance of diseases caused by carelessness or unpreparedness, typical of many adolescents, who in turn are contamined by serious diseases, such as Hepatitis C. Hepatitis C is considered a public health problem. Based on this, the objective of the work is to develop educational activities in the classroom, work to raise awareness and prevent hepatitis C, together with 9th grade students from a public school, together with 9th grade students from a public school; and, specifically, addressing Hepatitis C and its implications for the individual; discuss the role of the school regarding the adoption of educational practices aimed at disease prevention and health care; Distribution of an educational pamphlet about hepatitis C; Understand students' perception of hepatitis C; Sensitize students through a lecture; and Have a perception of the effect that educational lectures had on students. In Methodology, a bibliographical research was initially carried out on books, scientific articles, dissertations and theses and, subsequently, a field research with 9th grade students from a public school, located in Maceió / AL, tools such as pamphlet, videos, lecture and conversation wheel were used to raise awareness about the topic. With the research, the need for health practices at school was observed, due to the students' lack of knowledge about some diseases, including the one that was the object of the research.