Avaliação de práticas educativas em mulheres com dores nas costas

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

This study aimed to evaluate the echoes and perceptions of the educational practices related to the back pain self-care. It tried to identify the factors which influence the participants enrollment and the possible barriers that avoid the learning as well as the conditions for keeping on doing it. There have been eight educational workshops having nine women facing climacterium and complaining about chronic back pain enrolled. They were guided to develop the spinal column self-care treatment from January to July of 2005. The meetings took place at the University of Fortaleza UNIFOR, Ceará. This study was conducted using a qualitative approach to develop an evaluative research which collected data through three methodological bases: individual and group interviews, educational workshops and the participatory observation. It has been observed that the womens living standards resulted in inadequate environments, being their unpleasant lifestyles, wrong posture, wrong costumes and wrong eating habits, besides the difficulties to access to health care, meaningful to worsen their pain. The results have shown that the educational actions resulted in behavioral changes, better pain relief, a great improvement of mobility to their return to daily life activities, and kept them healthy without taking medicines. The women have revealed that the overload of work, the tiredness, the lack of time, the level of responsibility and the symptomatology associated to the back pain, the biomedical model, the facility to self-medication and the uncertainty of diagnosis were considered hindrances to having kept the self-care and their enrollment in the educational actions program. This study not only enables the re-thinking of the actual importance of the systematic and coordinated counseling in order to soften the pain, the abusive use of medicines, the expenditure of money on therapeutic actions, but also showed the need to put the self-care into practice at work, enabling the working force to become co-participants of their health care.

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educaÇÃo em saÚde - dissertaÇÕes saude coletiva mulheres - dor nas costas - dissertaÇÕes

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