Cuidado de si do adolescente no contexto da promoção à saúde: um estudo fenomenológico

Abstract

Research of a qualitative nature in the phenomenological approach based on the theoretical and methodological thinking of Martin Heidegger, with the objective of revealing the sense of caring for the adolescent in the context of health promotion. Seventeen adolescents enrolled in high school, from the State Institute of Education, between 14 and 18 years of age, regardless of race / ethnicity, color, sex, gender and religion were interviewed. The choice to perform the study and give voice to the teenager started from the need to direct the look to him at this time of his life, in which he can be prone to behaviors that are harmful to his health. For the interviews, they were previously elaborated inquiries about their characterization and broad questions that favored the conversation about the object of the research. The speeches were accessed for the immersion in the reading and apprehension of the meanings expressed by the participants and then, organized in units of signification for the vague and medium understanding, first methodical moment. With the elaboration of the thread of analysis, I moved to the second methodical moment, the interpretive or hermeneutical analysis, seeking the unveiling of the phenomenon studied, founded on the thought of Martin Heidegger, expressed in the book Being and Time. To interpret and give meaning to the self-care-of-the-teen-incontext-of-health-promotion is to understand the relationships that the adolescent being establishes with things, with oneself and with others. And, as a being-in-the-world, it is fragmented in how it relates, apprehends, behaves, cares, communicates and understands. The being-teenager is presence in the surrounding world and through language, reveals itself to the extent that meanings are revealed by the world. It refers to what it does or does not do to take care of its health with the things that are present in its daily life, to have adequate food, to carry out physical activity, not to consume alcohol, tobacco and drugs. The phenomenon of speaking is observed in his speech when he repeats what has already been said and goes on passing what he has heard. Curiosity, a characteristic of the adolescent's daily life, emerges when he comes face to face with the novelty and will be the other to make him wake up to the search for the different, for what is new and attracts him without any pretension to seek to understand what he sees or heard about. The adolescent being proves to be ambiguous in reporting his inadequate health habits, contradicting the knowledge and understanding that previously, ruled by the phallus, expressed ter. Being-with is the possibility of being-there relating, being, seeing and identifying with the other. The being-teenager felt dread to recognize the possibilities of acquiring some health problem in the future or even in adult life. The realization of this study gave participants the opportunity to reflect on the theme, contributing to the construction and deepening of knowledge in the area of health and nursing, which can subsidize the quality of care, in the development of health promotion actions for the adolescent, should involve the family, health unit and community.