A importância de estratégias educativas para prevenção e promoção de saúde em diabetes mellitus:

Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about the increase in cases of Diabetes Mellitus (DM), regardless of the country's degree of development, however, studies have shown that developing countries have been much more affected, especially with an increase in disease among children and adolescents. While there is much discussion about diabetes in different media, there are still issues that need to be better understood. Considering that education is essential for self-care, little is known about how formal education, in municipal public schools, can contribute to health promotion and DM mitigation in the final grades of elementary school II. Bearing in mind that in the last years of elementary school, students already had priorknowledge of different themes of the natural sciences that are the basis for understanding health and well-being. Thus, this study is based on the assumption that the use of active methodologieswill provide both teachers and students with contextualizations between the content and the local/regional reality. And it will use low-cost resources, such as games, games, and non- traditional teaching materials that can be made by the teacher himself, together with the students, according to the theme to be explored in the classroom. It is believed, even if from the use of non-traditional didactic resources, the teacher will awaken the student's interest, transforming the contents into theoretical/practical experience. For this, two different active methodologies were tested as a tool for contextualizing and problematizing the prevention and treatment of DM, together with eighth-grade classes of elementary school II and if they provide a better understanding and engagement of students from common contents of the disciplines of natural sciences (covered in high school in biology and chemistry) which encompasses within the discipline of sciences of elementary school II