Subsídios para a construção de um jogo como estratégia de educação em saúde em um ambulatório de quimioterapia antineoplásica

Abstract

Cancer is a public health problem with a high morbidity and mortality rate, with new cases diagnosed each year. The present work aimed to raise the necessary subsidies for the construction of a game as a health education strategy in an antineoplastic chemotherapy outpatient clinic. The methodology used was exploratory descriptive of a qualitative nature, carried out with patients and nursing professionals from an oncology chemotherapy outpatient clinic, linked to a philanthropic health institution in a capital of northeastern Brazil, carried out from August to December 2022. Bardin's Content Analysis was used for data analysis, according to which three thematic categories were described: Category 1: Self-care and welcoming guidelines for patients undergoing outpatient chemotherapy treatment; Category 2: The importance of games in health education for people undergoing outpatient cancer treatment and Category 3: Analog games as a means of promoting health education. The result identified that the necessary issues addressed by the patients were: healthy eating, fluid intake, reception, personal hygiene, side effects, correct use of the bathroom and physical exercise; the participants also deem it necessary to build a game; as for the type of game, the predominance was analogue in the domino game format. Based on this research, it was possible to raise subsidies for the construction of an educational game as a health promotion and education strategy for the general population and cancer patients, so that it can help them to seek a better quality of life and well-being. -being throughout the treatment.