Health education to sensitize school teenagers to get Human Virus Papilloma (HPV) vaccine

Abstract

Introduction:  Health education aims to raise awareness among citizens based on the subject's knowledge and dialogical pedagogical strategies. This activity can involve different life cycles such as children and teenagers. Objective: to report the experience of a tutorial group of the discipline SACI II of UFRN in the production and carrying out of health education actions aimed at raising awareness about adherence to HPV vaccination in the territory assigned to a USF in Natal / RN in the first half of the year 2018. Methodology: The selection of the target themes was based on students' perceptions about the epidemiological context of the neighborhood and, above all, on the continuous processes of active listening, in which USF health professionals and leaders of the territory exposed the local demands. The CANVAS tool was used to structure the strategic planning of the interventions. Dialogue exhibitions, with use of multimedia, posters, educational games and parodies were used in the interaction with the youth public of school. Results: The perceptions of the student group were positive and satisfactory at the end of the interventions, amidst the active participation of the students and interest in the topics addressed, evidencing the adequacy of the strategies carried out. Conclusions: the interventions sought to meet the goal of health promotion in a collective environment, involving adolescents. In addition, they contributed to the academic and personal growth of students by working on the skills of knowing, being, living together, essential for the implementation of the health surveillance model, as well as a positive balance, since the results expected in the planning were achieved. In this way, the principle of teaching-service-community integration was materialized.

Keywords: Teaching care Integration Services; Health Education; Communication; Primary Health Care; Unified Health System.