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- Title
PROTECTION FACTORS AGAINST ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION AS PERCEIVED BY BASIC EDUCATION TEACHERS.
- Authors
Sigampa, Juana Beatriz; Carvalho Ferriani, Maria Das Graças; Spanó Nakano, Ana Marcia
- Abstract
This research aims to understand how basic education teachers perceive factors that protect against alcohol consumption. An exploratory qualitative methodological approach is adopted. Semi-structured interviews and non-structured observation techniques are applied to a sample of 25 teachers. Content analysis of data gave rise to three thematic categories: the Meaning of Alcohol/Alcoholism; The School as an Area of Protection against Alcohol Consumption; the Teacher as a Protective Agent. The first one is interpreted as a harmful substance and a sociocultural problem situation. Protection is linked up with informing, communicating, educating or caring. Thus, the way teachers see their function ranges from guide to adviser or protector. Most teachers do not feel prepared for it, on the basis of psychopedagogical deficits, integral health knowledge, the legal framework and, mainly, their own prejudices on alcoholism.
- Subjects
HEALTH promotion; ALCOHOLISM; PRESCHOOL education; ALCOHOL drinking; TEACHERS
- Publication
Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem (RLAE), 2005, Vol 13, p771
- ISSN
1518-8345
- Publication type
Article