Knowledge about Popular Health Education in Physiotherapy students at Federal University of Pernambuco

• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Macilio Manuel da
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Barbosa, Juliana Fernandes de Souza, Vasconcelos, Cinthia Rodrigues de, Lima Neto, Joaquim Sérgio de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de educação popular (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/reveducpop/article/view/69355
• topic: Training of human resources in health; Health Unic System; Popular Health Education; Physiotherapy; Capacitação de recursos humanos em saúde; Sistema Único de Saúde; Educação Popular em Saúde; Fisioterapia

Popular Education in Health (PEH) is important for the empowerment of citizens in relation to their health. However, there seems to be an abyss related to communication between health professionals and the population. This study aims to identify the knowledge of Physical Therapy students at the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) about PEH. This is a qualitative study in which students with an active link in the Physiotherapy course at UFPE were recruited. Participants were instructed to read the inducing theme “PEH” and associate the first five words that came to their mind. The data collection was carried out remotely through the Google Forms platform and analyzed by the Iramuteq software. The final sample consisted of 49 students from all ten periods of the course. The words most cited by the students were: “prevention”, “Unified Health System (SUS)”, “I don't know/I don't remember”, “knowledge” and “collective health”. Therefore, although future physiotherapists have contact and recognize the PEH theme, the terms associated with it are still presented in a reductionist way. The results point to the need for strategies that can foster knowledge of PEH as means of achieving social transformation.