Educação e Saúde: palestra como estratégia de aprendizado e prevenção ao câncer, com ênfase no HPV

Abstract

The school must be a space for constructing knowledge and the formation of citizenship. In this sense, it is necessary to discuss fundamental themes such as health in a broad and interdisciplinary way. When talking about health, cancer is seen as an important topic to be discussed in basic education, mainly due to its high incidence and mortality rate, with emphasis in this work on cervical cancer and its relationship with human papillomavirus (HPV). Thus, this study conducted a discussion on cancer in high school and learning and prevention of HPV. For this, a visit was made to a third-year high school class at a public educational institution located in Uruçuí-PI, where students were invited to participate in the research. Confirmation of participation occurred only after acceptance of a free and informed consent form (TCLE) by adults and a Term of Responsibility (TR) signed by those responsible for those under 18 years of age. After confirming their participation, the students answered a conversation (Q1) with questions about their perception and their knowledge related to the proposed lecture. After that moment, the lecture was held, and a new attempt was applied (Q2), seeking to evaluate the learning and report the stimulation of the participants. After analyzing the data, it is pointed out that although the students consider it essential to discuss topics related to health in their school context, these practices are insufficient, with a waste of this space as an information source in the prevention of diseases and in the promotion of well-being for students. Finally, it should be noted that the teaching strategy adopted was successful, as it contributed to learning about the topics addressed, as well as serving as a stimulus factor for the prevention of HPV and its pathological consequences, as observed in the speech of some of the participants. Moreover, there is a need to conduct other studies that stimulate the discussion of topics related to health promotion and that these are integrated into school content, with the recognition of the school environment as the most important place for decision making created for the student's quality of life