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- Title
SCHOOLCHILDREN'S KNOWLEDGE ON PREVENTION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF LEPROSY.
- Authors
Simpson, Clélia Albino; Pinheiro, Mõnica Gisele Costa; da Silva Duarte, Lucélia Maria Carla Paulo; dos Santos Silva, Thayse Minosa
- Abstract
Objective: to identify the school's high knowledge as purpose to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of leprosy. Method: this is about a combined descriptive-exploratory study, with basic education students of schools in the Passagem de Areia neighborhood, in Parnamirim/RN municipality. The instrument used in data collection was a questionnaire with closed questions about leprosy, developed with the Primary Care Booklet No. 21, submitted to the Ethics Committee of Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, with protocol number 085/08. Results: we observed through the pre-test that the Hansen's disease is a disease little known by the students. Although, after health education actions, it was possible to observe a significative change in the results that confirms the efficacy of the informative lectures on the disease. Conclusion: thus, it is observed the importance of the nursing actions on the continuous development of preventive actions on this disease, having the youth as a disseminative vehicle of information to the family and general community, contributing to the eradication of this disease, once that the prevention breaks the epidemiologic chain of the Hansen's disease. Descriptors: leprosy; health education; collective health; nursing.
- Subjects
BRAZIL; ANALYSIS of variance; CURRICULUM; HEALTH education; HIGH school students; RESEARCH methodology; HANSEN'S disease; MIDDLE school students; RESEARCH; SCHOOL children; INFORMATION resources; PRE-tests &; post-tests; HEALTH literacy; SYMPTOMS; CHILDREN; PREVENTION; INFECTIOUS disease transmission
- Publication
Journal of Nursing UFPE / Revista de Enfermagem UFPE, 2011, Vol 5, Issue 6, p1161
- ISSN
1981-8963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5205/reuol.1302-9310-2-LE.0505201111