Abstract
Abstract Objective: To analyze health education practices developed by health professionals of the Family Health Strategy team in the context of childhood poisoning. Method: Qualitative research, carried out during the months of July and August 2016, with 50 health professionals from nine Family Health Strategy teams of the city of Maringá-Paraná. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and, subsequently, submitted to the thematic content analyses. Results: There were different perceptions and living experiences among uniprofessional or multi-professional members of the team. Those were built by different professional categories that were working with families developing prevention activities about childhood poisoning. Those activities in groups of health education were intended to bring health professionals closer to the Users, through dialogue. Conclusion: Indeed, health education practices were based on the concept of first aids, and adopting a biomedical perspective. A little discussed of poisoning accident prevention during childhood showed that those practices were away from a dialogical health education.
Highlights
Poisoning during childhood has been highlighted as an emerging public health problem and one of the causes of care in emergency health services.[1]
A lottery was held to select nine primary health care units (PHCU), one of each Support Centers for Family Health (SCFH), and for the PHCU that had more than one team, a lottery was held inside the PHCU to choose one team. 50 health professionals that integrated nine teams of Family Health Strategy (FHS) participated in the study
13 (26%) professionals referred to have participated in training courses to begin activities in the FHS, and only eight (16%) indicated to have been trained to develop poisoning prevention activities, even though they all said they participated in continuous education courses with frequency, at least every four months on exercising activities
Summary
Poisoning during childhood has been highlighted as an emerging public health problem and one of the causes of care in emergency health services.[1] The prevention of poisoning in childhood is the focus of investigations with the assumption of knowing the causal factors and characteristics of accidents, households and family behavior, such as lifestyle, health education, economic, social and cultural factors.[2,3]
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