The role of older women in health promotion: Conversation wheels in the community

• Autor(a) principal: Francescato, Camila Fabiana Lemos
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Heimerdinger, Vivian Steffen, Ianiski, Valéria Baccarin, Roman, Arlete Regina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: PAJAR - Pan American Journal of Aging Research
• Texto Completo: https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/pajar/article/view/28049
• topic: primary health care; elderly; self-care; group structure; personal autonomy.; atenção primária à saúde; idoso; autocuidado; estrutura de grupo; autonomia pessoal.

The purpose of this study was to understand how users who frequent talk in the community exercised the leading role, using the knowledge acquired in the wheels and how they multiply this information in the promotion of health care. This is a qualitative, descriptive research that interviewed eight elderly women (60 years old or more) of the community, belonging to different micro areas of a health territory, from a municipality in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul/BR, during The month of September 2016. They should have participated in at least four rounds of conversation in the coming year. They answered a questionnaire with open and closed questions. The interviews were analyzed according to the assumptions of the content analysis proposed by Minayo (2010) and the results were organized by categories of analysis, considering the steps of pre-analysis, material exploration and treatment and interpretation of the results. It is concluded that the wheels of conversation as active methodology and light technology of care generate benefits in the promotion of self-care, transforming the daily life of the individuals who participate and the social and family environment to which they are inserted, occupying them, the role of multiplier agents Of knowledge in their venues. In addition, the space of the conversation wheel was a collective construction site, which elevates harmonious relations with the health team, strengthening therapeutic ties and the protagonism of the users involved.