Active methodologies in the process of health education: tools used by nurses in preventing human papillomavirus in a municipal school in ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

International Journal of Development Research

Volume: 
09
Article ID: 
16584
4 pages
Research Article

Active methodologies in the process of health education: tools used by nurses in preventing human papillomavirus in a municipal school in ananindeua, Pará, Brazil

Letícia Gomes de Oliveira, Maria Josilene Castro de Freitas, André Carvalho Matias, Aline da Silva Abreu, Felipe Souza Nascimento, Tayna de Oliveira Lemos, Renata Valentim Abreu, Rafaela Cristina Maciel Ferreira, Thatiane Cristina da Anunciação Athaide, Elizabeth França de Freitas, Darlene Dias de Sousa Duarte Oliveira, Dayara de Nazaré Rosa de Carvalho, Fernanda Araújo Trindade, Mônica Custódia do Couto Abreu Pamplona and Ivonete Vieira Pereira Peixoto

Abstract: 

Educators are keystones to the development of critical and skilled citizens, contributing to the maintenance and quality of life of the students and the community. In this sense was created in school Health program which aims at integrating education and health through trained professionals about the actions of health education. The work aimed to show the importance of vaccination against HPV (Human Papilloma Virus), the risks, transferability and prevention, educational activities have been developed through games and quizzes in a municipal school in the neighborhood of Guanabara, Ananindeua-PA. Concluded that it was possible to identify the level of knowledge of students about sexually transmitted infections (STI) and the need of nurses in schools, even in the process of health education.

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