Educação em saúde no contexto da pandemia SARS-CoV-2 na perspectiva de usuários de equipe de Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF)

Abstract

Health education as a shared construction of knowledge is an instrument for the development of a critical analysis in relation to the innumerable information received. It provides perceptions and practices according to each reality, making the subject protagonist and co-responsible for his health and for the health of the community. It plays an important role in tackling the Covid-19 pandemic, both in the epidemiological context and in measures to prevent and control the coronavirus. The approach to users by family health strategy teams (ESF) strengthens the construction of bonds, dialogue, humanized care and the guarantee of access to health services. The use of appropriate active learning methodologies encourages professionals and users in the teaching-learning process and provides effective community-oriented health education in coping with the pandemic. This research aims to investigate the health learning processes provided to APS users in a given territory, regarding Covid-19 prevention and control measures. This subsidiary study to the PROFSAUDE multicenter study on the prevention and control of covid-19 uses a qualitative approach and secondary data sources consisting of transcripts of interviews carried out in an ESF in the city of Matias Barbosa-MG. The thematic content analysis follows the methodology of Bardin (2011), using a matrix of categories as an analysis tool, and the months of August and September 2022 as the collection period. Topics related to faith, vulnerabilities, severity, transmissibility, sequelae and deaths were addressed in the interviews. Mental, social and financial health damages were frequently mentioned and prevention measures were referred by all interviewees. The institutional methodologies, such as telemarketing, home visits, institutional whatsapp, posters, pamphlets and sound car, as well as noninstitutional ones, such as social networks, religious cults and family and community coexistence, were also mentioned by the interviewees.