Conhecimentos e percepções do jovem estudante do ensino médio sobre a hipertensão arterial e suas consequências

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Canabarro, Luciana
• Orientador(a): Almeida, Fernando Antônio de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Educação nas Profissões da Saúde
• Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Hipertensão; Adolescente; Educação em saúde; Promoção da saúde; Estudantes
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Hypertension; Adolescent; Health education; Health promotion; Students
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9480

Introduction: hypertension is a highly prevalent disease with serious personal consequences and for social and health care system. Risk factors for the disease are already present in adolescence and, at this age, the most commons are family history of hypertension and overweight. Many studies show that approximately 15% of young people already have high levels of blood pressure (BP) and BP values are associated with body mass index. Objectives: to identify the knowledge that young people who attend High School have on hypertension and to propose strategies to motivate their peers to have healthy attitudes reducing the risk of developing the disease in the future and, thus, leading to primary prevention of hypertension and health promotion. Methods: Forty-eight students participated in the study. We conducted two focus group sessions with second year High School students of three schools in Sorocaba-SP. A public school in the periphery, one technical public school located at down town and a private school located at city prime area, whose social indicators increased in that order. The interviews and discussions were recorded, transcribed and submitted to thematic analysis of Minayo. Results: In the three schools we found that students have a reasonably good knowledge of the disease, its risk factors and consequences. Many of them have relatives with hypertension. Students suggestions to motivate healthy behavior and prevent the disease varied according to the social level of the students and schools, however, all pointed to creative and participatory strategies. At the periphery school students suggested motivators games to be played at classrooms and rap contest with the prevention of hypertension as a central theme. At the technical school predominated suggestions developed in the social networks via the Internet, interactivity, reflection on the subject and the active participation of school and governmental and non-governmental organizations. Students from the private school suggested to use electronic games and challenges that have as subject hypertension and care involving the disease. Conclusions: The high school students make up a rich territory to work on health promotion and primary prevention of prevalent diseases. Students are highly motivated to participate in this educational process